Diana Wynne Jones quotes - page 2

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? (Diana Wynne Jones)
Over scones round the kitchen table, it emerged that Aunt Mary thought Ayna, Gair and Ceri came from Malaysia. Brenda looked at their faces and breathed in half a scone. While Gerald was pounding Brenda on the back, Ceri leaned back from the vibrating table and looked at Aunt Mary limpidly in the eye. "I'm afraid we don't remember Masaylia at all." "Malaysia!" View quote
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I don't believe this!" Peter said. "Why is it respectable not to know how to do things? Is it respectable to light a fire with a bar of soap?" "That," Charmain said haughtily, "was an accident. View quote
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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? View quote
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"Can I eat these?" he said. "No," said Vivian. "I'm hungry." "I'll give you half," Sam said, plainly thinking he was being generous. View quote
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I think we ought to live happily ever after. View quote
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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World. View quote
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Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look. View quote
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Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel. View quote
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A fickle heart is the only constant in this world. View quote
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The truth between two people always cuts two ways. (Diana Wynne Jones)
Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things. View quote
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If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine. View quote
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I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so. View quote
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I hope your bacon burns. View quote
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You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat! View quote
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I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we. View quote
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...don't spoil my learning process! View quote
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My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me. View quote
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I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober. View quote
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There is very seldom any true secret. (Diana Wynne Jones)
I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this. View quote
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Howl's voice was presently heard shouting weakly, "Help me, someone! I'm dying from neglect up here! View quote
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But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right. View quote
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Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that. View quote
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