Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones

…if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. […] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.

Fire

Heart

Sophie

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

Garden

Natural

Should

A heart’s a heavy burden.

Burden

Heart

Heavy

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

Library

Mouths

After that, all the while Millie was eating the pudding… we both tore Christopher’s character to shreds. It was wonderful fun…. He drove everyone mad in Chrestomanci Castle by insisting on silk shirts and exactly the right kind of pajamas. ‘And he could get them right anyway by magic,’ Millie told me, ‘if he wasn’t too lazy to learn how…. But the thing that really annoys me is the way he never bothers to learn a person’s name. If a person isn’t important to him, he always forgets their name.’ When Millie said this, I realized that Christopher had never once forgotten my name.

Character

Fun

Names

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.

Denmark

Mermaid

Rotten

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

Brain

Imagination

Insane

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.

Giving

Letters

Pity

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.

Jealous

Nice

Water Lily

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.

Mind

Mother

Stupid

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Beautiful

Believe

Body

Boys

Brain

Burden

Character

Children

Cones

Consideration

Cups

Curves

Cutting

Denmark

Devil

Doe

Dog

Dragons

Dream

Dresses

Drunkenness

Duvets

Eggs

Enchanted

Eye

Fairy Stories

Father

Fire

Fool

Forget

Fun

Garden

Girl

Giving

Growing Up

Hair

Half

Hands

Hangover

Hate

Hats

Heard

Heart

Heavy

Hero

Hints

Howl

Howl's Moving Castle

Hug

Hurt

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Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones

…if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. […] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.

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

A heart’s a heavy burden.

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

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.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

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.

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.

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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