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One Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones
- I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong…
- One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
- I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors,…
- In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born…
- This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have…
- Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto…
- He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and…
- You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you…
- 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.…
- Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he…
- SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
- What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you…
- 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…
- It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.
- It's just as I thought," she said. "I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves,…
- Can't you treat yourself with a bit more consideration?' 'Why should I?' Mordion said, hugging the duvet round himself. 'Because you're a person, of course!'…
- Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!
- Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward…
- But Sophie and Howl were holding one another's hand and smiling and smiling, quite unable to stop. "Don't bother me know," said Howl. "I only…
- Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
- But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them
- This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future…
- I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling…
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