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
nice jealous water-lily
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.
hats kitten robbers
You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
cheer squares sight
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.
cones my-friends calcifer
I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.
long rooms persons
Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
cat use praying
Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.
people like-me knows
But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.
fairy-stories facts looks
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.
girl lovely sophie
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?
people age said
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.
girl bullying real
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.
shining dishonesty salvation
My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
kings years usual
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
hero silly mean
Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.