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41 " Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time. "
― Diana Wynne Jones , Castle in the Air (Howl's Moving Castle, #2)
42 " City of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together. . . .There have been cities of EVIL Wizards in the past. You will occasionally come across the sites of these, reduced to a glassy slag during the ultimate disagreement. "
― Diana Wynne Jones , The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
43 " Polaris often remarks to Sol that Sirius loses his temper much less often these days. But the one sure way to send him into a flaming rage is to suggest that he finds a new Companion. Sirius will not hear of it. The small white sphere circling his goes untenanted, because he hopes that what Miss Smith said is true. "
― Diana Wynne Jones , Dogsbody
44 " People are wrong when they say things like, “I didn’t have time to think.” If you’re really worried, or really miserable, those feelings come welling up around the edges of the other things you’re doing, so that you are in the feelings even when you’re working hard at something else. "
― Diana Wynne Jones , Conrad's Fate (Chrestomanci, #5)
45 " Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support. "
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
46 " And suddenly, as if her head had cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they’re only in my own mind, she thought, they’re there and worth fighting for. I mustn’t give in. "
― Diana Wynne Jones , Hexwood
47 " When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere. "
― Diana Wynne Jones , Witch Week (Chrestomanci, #3)
48 " Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things! "
― Diana Wynne Jones
49 " There is very seldom any true secret. "
― Diana Wynne Jones , Deep Secret (Magids, #1)
50 " 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! "
51 " I hate dialect. It gets in the way. If there is a need for dialect, you can render it quite easily by reproducing the rythm of that form of speech. Then you don't need to bother with silly spellings "
― Diana Wynne Jones , Reflections: On the Magic of Writing
52 " You owe me. You roasted my father. "
― Diana Wynne Jones , Dark Lord of Derkholm (Derkholm, #1)
53 " But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them "
― Diana Wynne Jones , Fire and Hemlock
54 " Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel. "
55 " I'm going to bed, where I may die. "
56 " Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax. "
57 " Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping. "
58 " When I say "narrative", I do not mean simply the plot, I mean considerably more. Plots and their shapes--the bare outlines of stories--were something I know J.R.R. Tolkien himself was interested in. When I was an undergraduate, I went to a course of lectures he gave on the subject--at least, I think that was the subject, because Tolkien was all but inaudible. He evidently hated lecturing, and I suspect he also hated giving his thoughts away. "
59 " I hope your bacon burns. "
60 " Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all. "