Diana Wynne Jones

“SHE LIKES MY SPARK!!!!--Calcifer”

— Diana Wynne Jones

But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?

— Diana Wynne Jones

“All power corrupts, but we need electricity.”

— Diana Wynne Jones

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

— Diana Wynne Jones

A heart's a heavy burden.

— Diana Wynne Jones

...don't spoil my learning process!

— Diana Wynne Jones

I hope your bacon burns.

— Diana Wynne Jones

There is very seldom any true secret.

— Diana Wynne Jones

I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.

— Diana Wynne Jones

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

— Diana Wynne Jones

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

— Diana Wynne Jones

Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.

— Diana Wynne Jones

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

— Diana Wynne Jones

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

— Diana Wynne Jones

“... I asked you for Hobbits on a grail quest, and not one Hobbit have I seen!”

— Diana Wynne Jones

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

— 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…

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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…

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And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you…

— 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…

— 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…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“I've been feeling rather bloodthirsty lately, and saving the world seemed a good way to use it.”

— Diana Wynne Jones

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World. - Ka'a Ort'o, Gnomic Utterances, Civ”

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Howl pointed a shaky hand up toward the canopy of his bed. “That’s why I love spiders. ‘If at first you don’t…

— Diana Wynne Jones

It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Polaris often remarks to Sol that Sirius loses his temper much less often these days. But the one sure way to send…

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But Sophie and Howl were holding one another's hand and smiling and smiling, quite unable to stop. "Don't bother me know," said…

— Diana Wynne Jones

Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled…

— Diana Wynne Jones

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are…

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Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“How can I preach Dissolution?" he said. "How can I not believe in the gods when I have seen them for myself?"…

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“When I say "narrative", I do not mean simply the plot, I mean considerably more. Plots and their shapes--the bare outlines of…

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“The third encounter came towards the end of the afternoon when Sophie had worked her way quite high into the hills. A…

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“What did you do?" said Charles. "You know that night all our shoes went into the hall," said Nirupam. "Well, we had…

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By this time, half the people in High Norland were gathered in Royal Square to stare at the castle. They all watched…

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“Tell me of this wizard Howl of yours." Sophie's teeth chattered, but she said proudly, "He's the best wizard in Ingary or…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“The pityingly look made Sophie utterly ashamed. He was such a dashing specimen too, with a bony, sophisticated face--really quite oold, well…

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Howl has been very kind to me.” And this was true, Sophie realized. Howl showed his kindness rather strangely, but, considering all…

— Diana Wynne Jones