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If you stood up and told the truth in the wrong way, it was not true any longer, though it might be as powerful as ever.
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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
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"Unprintable things!" I said - only I didn't say that. I really said them.
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Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!
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Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. "I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.
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Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.
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"I never said my wishes were supposed to do anyone any good," said the genie. "In fact, I swore that they would always do as much harm as possible."
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What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.
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Adara was impressed. "How do you know that?"
"I learnt it," said Hathil. "It pays to learn things."
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"It is of course a magic carpet."
Abdullah had heard that one before. He bowed over his tucked-up hands. "Many and various are the virtues said to reside in carpets," he agreed. "Which one does the poet of the sands claim for this? Does it welcome a man home to his tent? Does it bring peace to the hearth? Or maybe," he said, poking the frayed edge suggestively with one toe, "it is said to never wear out?"
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By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast!
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"Amazing. You're here, but you can't do a simple thing like raising light, or do I mean lazing right? Whichever. You can't. Why not?"
"No one ever showed me how," I said.
He swayed about, looking solemn. "I quote," he said. "I'm very well read in the literature of several worlds, you know, and I quote. What do they teach them in these schools?"
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I'm beginning to think I've led a much too sheltered life.
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"What you do is find your centre - can you do that?"
"My navel, you mean?" I said.
"No, no!" he howled. "You're not a woman! Or are you?"
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Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
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You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.
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Diana Wynne Jones
Born:
August 16, 1934
Died:
March 26, 2011
(aged 76)
Bio:
Diana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults.
Known for:
Howl's Moving Castle (1986)
Charmed Life (1977)
Castle in the Air (1990)
Witch Week (1982)
House of Many Ways (2008)
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