Diana Wynne Jones Short Quotes

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I'm beginning to think I've led a much too sheltered life.

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Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

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Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

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You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

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If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.

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Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.

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"Unprintable things!" I said - only I didn't say that. I really said them.

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It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.

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Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

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That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

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Pretending was like that. Things seemed to make themselves up, once you got going.

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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.

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I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

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Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

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A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

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Please, your story, or I shall offend the dignitaries of my kingdom by yawning at holy things.

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Howl's voice was presently heard shouting weakly, Help me, someone! I'm dying from neglect up here!

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Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.

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It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

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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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One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

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Then watch out. I warn you!" "That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.

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To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

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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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I had a mitherable childhood. Nobody loved me. I think I have a right to try again, looking pwettier, don't you?

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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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It was very boring. Perhaps it was his job to be boring, Vivian thought, in which case he was very good at his job.

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Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!

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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 person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself."
"What a strange idea!" Mordion said.

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