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Diana Wynne Jones quotes ⌨️ I welcome quote suggestions in the DMS, especially obscure ones ✒️ (aka if it's from HMC I've definitely already got it) 🍃

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It just lies behind the slightly more normal things I do do. This sense that most people are crazy, if you look deep enough. Adults particularly, and children have to deal with them.

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Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!

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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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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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"When—when might I expect you then?" "Whenever is least convenient for you," the demon replied. "Number your days until then."

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I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books.

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The melons were small and self-seeded, but all the same, you cannot *imagine* the effect an elephant has on a field of melons. There is the most incredible squelching and bursting.

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Beauty isn't made of sugar.

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A book for children, like the myths and folktales that tend to slide into it, is really a blueprint for dealing with life. For that reason, it might have a happy ending, because nobody ever solved a problem while believing it was hopeless.

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She stood with her nose up, sniffing delightedly. It was the delicious mildewy fragrance of old books. Hundreds of them, she saw, looking round the room. Books were lined up on shelves on all four walls, stacked on the floor, and piled on the desk.

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"Now I really am your man!" Tacroy said. He was laughing in a way that was rather like sobbing.

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"You intend to go on?" Gwendolen said. "Then watch out. I warn you!" "That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned."

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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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Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

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He didn't exactly stamp his foot or even yell particularly, but the way he said it was doing both these things, and I somehow understood that Will was his elder brother and had had *years* of experience in winding Rupert up.

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"Oh lord!" Christopher groaned, too weary to be polite. "Can't someone help me at all? I've learned my lesson." "What gave you the idea there was only one lesson to learn?" bawled Dr. Pawson.

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What's the good of being civilized, that's what I'd like to know? It just means other people can break the rules and you can't.

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A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there.

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I always love it when people I know I have invented start behaving unexpectedly, as real people do- being themselves, in fact.

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Mr Lynn obviously thought she was bold and bloodthirsty, and she wanted to prove he was right.