Diana Wynne Jones Quotes - Page 6

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• Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In the latter case it is tactful to pretend you think she is a boy. She/he will be ignorant, hasty and shy, and will need hauling out of trouble quite a lot. But she/he will grow up in the course of the Tour. In fact she/he will be the only Companion who will change in any way. Quite often, she/he will soon exhibit a very useful talent for magic and end up by hauling everyone else out of trouble. But this will not be until midway through your second brochure.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Girl, Growing Up, Princess

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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 with disbelief as the castle rose slightly into the air and glided toward the road that led southward. It was hardly more than an alley, really. "It'll never fit!" people said. But the castle somehow squeezed itself narrow enough to drift away along it and out of sight. The citizens of High Norland gave it a cheer as it went.

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  Cheer, Squares, Sight

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• Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

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  Sophie, Fool, Busy

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

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• You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.

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  Want, Ifs, Howl's Moving Castle

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

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• I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.

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  Cutting, Thinking, Hair

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• One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

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  People, Doe, Want

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Power of Three”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.

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  Eye, Skulls, Teeth

  "Wizard's Castle". Book by Diana Wynne Jones (p.71), 2002.

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• Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Trying, Typical, Necks

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• Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Real, Book, Home

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• You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find the things I need for my transport spells if you tidy them up.'So there was probably a bundle of souls or a box of chewed hearts somewhere out here, Sophie thought. She felt really thwarted. 'Tidying up is what I'm here for!' she shouted at Howl. 'Then you must think of a new meaning for your life,' Howl said.

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  Heart, Thinking, Soul

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

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• I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.

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  Hangover, Sophie, Fool

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• Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything." "Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies." "What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead!

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  Selfish, Believe, Mean

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• A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

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  Garden, Natural, Should

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

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

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  May, Rooms, Howl

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• I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Real, Behave, Persons

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• She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.

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  Body, Said, Howl's Moving Castle

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

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