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Diana Wynne Jones foi uma escritora britânica, autora de livros de fantasia e de não-ficção. É conhecida no Brasil por sua série Os Mundos de Crestomanci, e por ser a autora do livro que deu origem ao filme Howl's Moving Castle, adaptado pelo diretor japonês Hayao Miyazaki. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Agosto 1934 – 26. Março 2011
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Diana Wynne Jones Frases famosas

“Odeio os infelizes - disse Calcifer. - Eles pingam em mim. Prefiro os furiosos.”

Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle

“Não se pode ser exigente quando se está em busca do próprio destino.”

Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle

“Morta? - repetiu Sophie. Ela teve o tolo impulso de acrescentar: Mas estava viva a uma hora! No entanto, se conteve, porque a morte é assim: as pessoasvivas até que morrem.”

Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle

“Em primeiro lugar, leia sempre tudo cuidadosamente. A forma deve lhe dizer muito, quer seja pra auto-realização ou autodescoberta ou simples encantamento, ou um misto de ação e fala. Quando decidir isso, reveja tudo e defina que partes significam o que dizem e que partes são incluídas como quebra-cabeça. Você está chegando aos tipos mais poderosos.”

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Diana Wynne Jones: Frases em inglês

“Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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“What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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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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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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“She was remorseless, but she lacked method.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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“Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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“Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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“Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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“All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it.”

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Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

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“Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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“Learn to drive?"
"Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Archer's Goon

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“It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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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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Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

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“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?”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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“You have no right to make jigsaws of people.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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“Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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“Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro The Lives of Christopher Chant

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“In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.”

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Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

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“Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro The Merlin Conspiracy

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“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.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Fire and Hemlock

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“I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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“Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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“Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.”

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Diana Wynne Jones Charmed Life

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“I seem to have excalibured this knife.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Enchanted Glass

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“But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Howl's Moving Castle

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“Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro The Tough Guide To Fantasyland

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“If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Castle in the Air

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“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.”

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

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Castle in the Air

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“Then watch out. I warn you!"

"That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.”

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Diana Wynne Jones Charmed Life

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