Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 August 1934
mermaid rotten denmark
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.
giving letters pity
And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.
watches said considerate
Then watch out. I warn you!" "That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.
devil mouths safe
Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up!" "Oh, you flatter me, Brian," Chrestomanci said.
dragons interesting personality
But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them
interesting interesting-things happens
Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.
running sorry sophie
Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.
heart burden heavy-burdens
A heart's a heavy burden.
encouragement strong people
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.
heart hands long
There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping on his knees and hands, trickling in glops down his legs, and dripping off the stool in sticky strands. It was in oozing ponds and crawling pools over most of the floor. Long fingers of it had crept into the hearth. It smelled vile.
girl thinking islands
Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).
real behave persons
I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.
body said howls-moving-castle
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
thinking care might
Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.