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• I hope your bacon burns.

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  Diana Wynne Jones (2014). “The Land of Ingary Trilogy (includes Howl’s Moving Castle)”, p.30, HarperCollins UK

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• I think my moment of revelation came when I saw this young man come on court in the most flamboyant clothes. He had a sweet smile and questionably blonde hair and a generally chirpy glamour that in fact concealed huge skill. When he was interviewed he confessed to hating to get angry and it was also said that he slithered out of winning when it came to the big matches. And I thought, My God! This Andre Agassi is the image of Howl in my book HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE!

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  Sweet, Hate, Moving

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

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  Cones, My Friends, Drunkenness

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• ...don't spoil my learning process!

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  Process, Spoil, Learning Process

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• Then watch out. I warn you!" "That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.

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  Watches, Said, Considerate

  Diana Wynne Jones (2013). “The Chrestomanci Series: Entire Collection”, p.50, HarperCollins UK

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• Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.

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  Rounds, Howl's Moving Castle

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!

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  Voice, Dying, Helping

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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

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  Animal, People, Cheat

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• 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 a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.

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  Girl, Bullying, Real

  Diana Wynne Jones (1988). “Witch Week”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• 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 seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-

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  Dream, Our World, Other Worlds

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• 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 feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.

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  Encouragement, Strong, People

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• Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.

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  Nice, Fairy Stories, People

  "'About the Author', The Many Worlds of Diana Wynne Jones". Published by HarperCollins, 2005.

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• There is very seldom any true secret.

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  Secret

  Diana Wynne Jones (2013). “Deep Secret”, p.5, Macmillan

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• 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 wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 8. One black eye deserves another. 9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm. 10. It pays to increase your word power.

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  Book, Home, Eye

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

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  Eye, Spiders, Spots

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• If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.

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  Giving, Hints, Information

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• After that, all the while Millie was eating the pudding... we both tore Christopher's character to shreds. It was wonderful fun.... He drove everyone mad in Chrestomanci Castle by insisting on silk shirts and exactly the right kind of pajamas. 'And he could get them right anyway by magic,' Millie told me, 'if he wasn't too lazy to learn how.... But the thing that really annoys me is the way he never bothers to learn a person's name. If a person isn't important to him, he always forgets their name.' When Millie said this, I realized that Christopher had never once forgotten my name.

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  Fun, Character, Names

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• This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As you can see, it's constantly growing and moving as people invent new tales to tell or find new things to believe. The older strands move out to become these spirals, where things tend to become quite crude and dangerous. They've hardened off, you see.

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  Believe, Moving, People

  Diana Wynne Jones (2007). “The Game”, Puffin Books

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• Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances

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  Kings, Years, Usual

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• But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.

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  People, Like Me, Knows

  Diana Wynne Jones (2014). “The Land of Ingary Trilogy (includes Howl’s Moving Castle)”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.

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  Thinking, Sheltered Lives

  Diana Wynne Jones (2008). “House of Many Ways”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

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• 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 the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots.

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  Wall, Boys, Doors

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.

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  Mermaid, Rotten, Denmark

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.

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  Long, Rooms, Persons

  Diana Wynne Jones (2013). “The Chrestomanci Series: Entire Collection”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• No I am not all right!” Chrestomanci said, after five minutes of this. “I have worldwide blisters. I need a shave. I’m tired out and I haven’t had anything to eat since breakfast yesterday. Would you feel alright in my position?

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  Tired, Yesterday, Needs

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