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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up! (Diana Wynne Jones)
Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything." "Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies." "What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead! View quote
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A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells. View quote
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It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters. View quote
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Busy old fool, unruly Sophie. View quote
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Annoyed?” said Sophie. "Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me? View quote
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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies. View quote
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You have no right to make jigsaws of people. View quote
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Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman. View quote
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I seem to have excalibured this knife. View quote
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But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway? (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. View quote
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I could cut a star out of paper and drop it. View quote
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Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before." Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170. View quote
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In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers. View quote
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All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it. View quote
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Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all. View quote
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If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information. View quote
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I'm going up to my room now, where I may die. View quote
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Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time. View quote
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Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place. Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said. Oh shut up!" Sophie said, standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up? (Diana Wynne Jones)
Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you. View quote
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Then watch out. I warn you!" "That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned. View quote
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I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance. View quote
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But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward. View quote
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