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Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person. (Diana Wynne Jones)

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

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

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But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them.

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Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.

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

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

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So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

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If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!

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She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons. (Diana Wynne Jones)

Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

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I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes." "Those are spiders.

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All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

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

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Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?

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

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He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.

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I don't think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. "I'm going to train to be a hero instead.

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Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

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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! (Diana Wynne Jones)

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

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What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

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You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.

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He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.

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Diana Wynne Jones

Occupation: English Writer
Born: August 16, 1934
Died: March 26, 2011
Quotes count: 144
Wikipedia: Diana Wynne Jones

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