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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
— Diana Wynne Jones
In a way it was worth it, she thought, except that it was such a total waste.
— Diana Wynne Jones
It seems that Fate has decreed that I live through my entire daydream in reality!
— Diana Wynne Jones
Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
— Diana Wynne Jones
You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
— Diana Wynne Jones
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
Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
— Diana Wynne Jones
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.
— Diana Wynne Jones
I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.
— Diana Wynne Jones
It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
— Diana Wynne Jones
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
I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
— Diana Wynne Jones
I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did you do to the King?
— Diana Wynne Jones
One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Funny the way it was never enough to swear and promise just the once. You seemed to have to rethink and repromise every time the subject came up.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. Why I am I holding a dog full of angels?
— Diana Wynne Jones
I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
— Diana Wynne Jones
But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?
— Diana Wynne Jones
SHE LIKES MY SPARK!!!!--Calcifer
— Diana Wynne Jones
If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Evidently this was the kind of manthat Estelle fell instantly in love with. — Diana Wynne Jones
It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.
— Diana Wynne Jones
You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
— Diana Wynne Jones
I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes.""Those are spiders. — Diana Wynne Jones
She stared at the King. The King stared back. It was a disaster.
— Diana Wynne Jones
The truth between two people always cuts two ways.
— Diana Wynne Jones
I'm beginning to think I've led a much too sheltered life.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Please, your story, or I shall offend the dignitaries of my kingdom by yawning at holy things.
— Diana Wynne Jones
You go and find who you really are, and don't let anyone stop you.
— Diana Wynne Jones
What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
— Diana Wynne Jones
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.
— Diana Wynne Jones
To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
— Diana Wynne Jones
I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.
— Diana Wynne Jones
She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out.
— Diana Wynne Jones
That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
— Diana Wynne Jones
My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
— Diana Wynne Jones
I can't wear thethe! I want my thtwipey oneth!
— Diana Wynne Jones
What's the good of being civilized, that's what I'd like to know? It just means other people can break the rules and you can't.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Howl,heart is a heavy burden.
— Diana Wynne Jones
And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.
— Diana Wynne Jones
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!
— Diana Wynne Jones
I don't know, Your Majesty. He's a mess.
— Diana Wynne Jones
In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Learn to drive?""Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger. — Diana Wynne Jones
All power corrupts, but we need electricity
— Diana Wynne Jones
Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
— Diana Wynne Jones
I seem to have excalibured this knife.
— Diana Wynne Jones
I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Things are going round and round in my heador maybe my head is going round and round in things. — Diana Wynne Jones
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?
— Diana Wynne Jones
You've rotted your mind with reading books.
— Diana Wynne Jones
You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
— Diana Wynne Jones
A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.
— Diana Wynne Jones
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Lettie, as the second daughter, was never likely to come to much,
— Diana Wynne Jones
...don't spoil my learning process!
— Diana Wynne Jones
A fickle heart is the only constant in this world
— Diana Wynne Jones
Somewhere in the lane after that they came level with a small door next to a fried chicken shop. There was a small red-lit sign over this door.
— Diana Wynne Jones
At least, I suppose I can't blame Calcifer, since he's an evil demon. But you you Michael-!""I don't think I'm evil," Calcifer protested. — Diana Wynne Jones
Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
— Diana Wynne Jones
But I discovered that people like me they do, you know, if you like them
and then it was all right. — Diana Wynne Jones
There is very seldom any true secret.
— Diana Wynne Jones
I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
— Diana Wynne Jones
I don't think I will get married," Polly said as she stood up. "I'm going to train to be a hero instead.
— Diana Wynne Jones
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.
— Diana Wynne Jones
SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
— Diana Wynne Jones
I think we ought to live happily ever after.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Howl's very fickle," said Calcifer. "He's only interested until the girl falls in love with him. Then he can't be bothered with her.
— Diana Wynne Jones
I've got a hangover.""No, you hit your head on the floor."
"I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie. — Diana Wynne Jones
I hope your bacon burns.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.
— Diana Wynne Jones
A very short burst of thought was enough to convince Abdullah that his situation, despite the chains, would be very much worse if he became a toad.
— Diana Wynne Jones
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
I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
— Diana Wynne Jones
We can't all be Mad Hatters,
— Diana Wynne Jones
Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.
— Diana Wynne Jones
And said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Beauty isn't made of sugar.
— Diana Wynne Jones
When have you looked?" said Sophie."Oh, how your rears flap and your long nose twitches", Howl croaked. — Diana Wynne Jones
Doors are very powerful things. Things are different on either side of them.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.
— Diana Wynne Jones
So you eat them. And don't try chucking them away. I'll know. I empty the bins.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest
— Diana Wynne Jones
Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off.
— Neil Gaiman
She was remorseless, but she lacked method.
— Diana Wynne Jones
As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.
— Diana Wynne Jones
That can go in the cabinet, and so can this One Ring. No, don't put it on, you fool! It's dangerous!
— Diana Wynne Jones
Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
— Diana Wynne Jones
Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
— Diana Wynne Jones
