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"Unprintable things!" I said - only I didn't say that. I really said them. (Diana Wynne Jones)
Ann looked down at him, spread on the bank preparing to go to sleep, and lost her temper. "Then you should go and tell him! You should look after him! He's all alone in this wood, and he's quite small, and he doesn't even know he's not supposed to go out of it. He probably doesn't even know how to work the field to get food. You - you calmly make him up, out of blood and - and nothing, and you expect him to do your dirty work for you, and you don't even tell him the rules! You can't do that to a person!" View quote
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Oh, thank goodness!" he babbled. "I didn't mean it - at least I did, but I don't mean it now, not any more!" He flung one arm around Yam and twisted the other into Mordion's rolled cloak. "They came. They rustled. Don't let them! View quote
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"Oh, what a sweet little doggie!" Mrs Baker cried out. "Is ooh hungwy, then?" She gave Waif the rest of the cake she was eating. Waif took it politely, ate it in one gulp and continued to beg. Mrs Baker gave her a whole cake from the plate. This caused Waif to beg more soulfully than ever. "I'm disgusted," Charmain told Waif. View quote
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I had a mitherable childhood. Nobody loved me. I think I have a right to try again, looking pwettier, don't you? View quote
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"Oh, Lord! He's a weeper!" Grandad said disgustedly. "I wish I'd known. I'd have stayed away." "A lot of Merlins have cried when they prophesied," Dad pointed out. "I know. But I don't have to like it, do I?" Grandad retorted. View quote
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that. View quote
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Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. View quote
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This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything. View quote
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Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about. View quote
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I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did youto the King? (Diana Wynne Jones)
Not likely!” Howl yelled. "I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell my self I'm not doing it! View quote
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I feel ill,” he announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.” He tottered piteously to the stairs. "Bury me beside Mrs. Pentstemmon,” he croaked as he went up then to bed. View quote
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She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out. View quote
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I'm delirious," said Howl. "Spots are crawling before my eyes." "Those are spiders," said Sophie. "Why can't you cure yourself with a spell?" "Because there is no cure for a cold," Howl said dolefully. View quote
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SHE LIKES MY SPARK!!!!--Calcifer. View quote
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Rosenberg, Teya; Hixon, Martha P.; Scapple, Sharon M.; White, Donna R. Diana Wynne Jones - An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom (New York: Peter Lang, 2002). ISBN 082045687X. View quote
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It is of course a magic carpet. View quote
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Happiness isn't a thing. View quote
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