"I only want to catch you,” Michael explained.……" — Diana Wynne Jones
"I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.” “No! No!” the star crackled desperately. “That’s wrong! I’m supposed to die!” “But I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it gently. “No!” cried the star. “I’d rather die!"
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Diana Wynne Jones
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143 Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones
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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because…
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Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you…
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One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and…
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and…
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It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom…
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Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up…
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I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean,…
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It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your…
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A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense…
— Red Auerbach
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you…
— Pearl Bailey
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The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
— Harvey Ball
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
— Dave Barry
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
— Dave Barry
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it…
— Erma Bombeck
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
— Terry Bradshaw
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