Diana Wynne Jones Quotes - Page 4

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• So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

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  Running, Coward, Way

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

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  Mind, Kind, Nervous

  Diana Wynne Jones (2013). “The Chrestomanci Series: Entire Collection”, p.92, HarperCollins UK

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• I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Hiding, Peter

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• And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.

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  Nice, Jealous, Water Lily

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

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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 to want to get it wrong!

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  Beautiful, Want, Young

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

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• I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice.

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  Eye, Thinking, Years

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• Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or later— probably sooner— I’d look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I’d be disappointed in you if I didn’t see you.” “Are you off to the iceberg today?” Sophie retorted.

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  Girl, Ocean, Looks

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

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• Calcifer," Sophie said, "I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you?" "It would if anyone else broke it," Calcifer said hoarsely. "That's why I asked you to do it.

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  Sophie, Broke, Break

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

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• I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

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  People, Age, Said

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.217, Penguin

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• Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.

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  Cat, Use, Praying

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

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• Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?

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  Girl, Lovely, Sophie

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• 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 saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy

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  Rushing, Yelling, Vegetables

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• I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

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  Bed, May, Howl

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• It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.

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  White, Sheep, Legs

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• 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 the filthy carpet. "I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.

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  Thinking, Doors, Boredom

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

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• Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.

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  Thinking, Sophie, Care

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

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• 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 not recognize him.

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  Parent, One Day, Papa

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “The Lives of Christopher Chant (The Chrestomanci Series, Book 4)”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.

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  Clean, Old Woman, Howl's Moving Castle

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

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• What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

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  Names, Strange, Howl

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• When have you looked?" said Sophie. "Oh, how your rears flap and your long nose twitches", Howl croaked.

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  Long, Noses, Sophie

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

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• All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it.

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  Names, Trying, Next

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• As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

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  Mother, Stupid, Mind

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• 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. Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said. Oh shut up!" Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up?

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  Growing Up, Naughty, Light

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• But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Curves

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• I seem to have excalibured this knife.

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  Knives, Seems

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