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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

“You wouldn't believe how lonely you get.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro The Homeward Bounders

Fonte: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 36.

“That was the trouble with Joris. He was nice. You ended up liking him, whatever you did. Even when you wanted to shake him till his head fell off.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro The Homeward Bounders

Fonte: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 131.

“I was a thoroughly hardened Homeward Bounder. There seemed nothing I didn't know.
Then I ran into Helen. My friendly neighbourhood enemy. There really was nothing like Helen on any world I'd ever been to. I sometimes didn't think she was human at all.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro The Homeward Bounders

Fonte: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 70.

“Rosenberg, Teya; Hixon, Martha P.; Scapple, Sharon M.; White, Donna R. Diana Wynne Jones - An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom (New York: Peter Lang, 2002). ISBN 082045687X”

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“"Unprintable things!" I said - only I didn't say that. I really said them.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro The Homeward Bounders

Fonte: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 56.

“Please, your story, or I shall offend the dignitaries of my kingdom by yawning at holy things.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Hexwood

Fonte: Hexwood (1993), p. 261.

“"If you call me V. S. once again," she said, "I shall scream - I warn you!"
Sam patted her arm. "You need a butter-pie," he said kindly.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro A Tale of Time City

Fonte: A Tale of Time City (1987), p. 73.

“I never said my wishes were supposed to do anyone any good," said the genie. "In fact, I swore that they would always do as much harm as possible.”

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Fonte: Castle Series, Castle in the Air (1990), pp. 102-103.

“"Heroes see things like that," he said.
"It's obviously an enchantment of some kind," Polly agreed, humouring him.
"It must be," he said. It sounded as if he was humouring her.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Fire and Hemlock

Fonte: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 34.

“People may wonder how Mitt came to join in the Holand Sea Festival, carrying a bomb, and what he thought he was doing. Mitt wondered himself by the end.”

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First lines.
Fonte: Dalemark Quartet, Drowned Ammet (1977), p. 223.

“If nothing happened, then there's nothing to remember," she told herself, trying to sound philosophical. "Of course there's nowhere to start.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Fire and Hemlock

Fonte: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 14.

“Amazing. You're here, but you can't do a simple thing like raising light, or do I mean lazing right? Whichever. You can't. Why not?"
"No one ever showed me how," I said.
He swayed about, looking solemn. "I quote," he said. "I'm very well read in the literature of several worlds, you know, and I quote. What do they teach them in these schools?”

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Fonte: Magids Series, The Merlin Conspiracy (2003), p. 113.

“"Can I eat these?" he said.
"No," said Vivian. "I'm hungry."
"I'll give you half," Sam said, plainly thinking he was being generous.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro A Tale of Time City

Fonte: A Tale of Time City (1987), p. 21.

“Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people’s lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.”

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'About the Author', The Many Worlds of Diana Wynne Jones http://www.dianawynnejones.co.uk/author/default.aspx (HarperCollins, 2005). Retrieved June 14 2005.

“Pretending was like that. Things seemed to make themselves up, once you got going.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Fire and Hemlock

Fonte: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 29.

“It is of course a magic carpet.”

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Abdullah had heard that one before. He bowed over his tucked-up hands. "Many and various are the virtues said to reside in carpets," he agreed. "Which one does the poet of the sands claim for this? Does it welcome a man home to his tent? Does it bring peace to the hearth? Or maybe," he said, poking the frayed edge suggestively with one toe, "it is said to never wear out?"
Fonte: Castle Series, Castle in the Air (1990), pp. 16-17.

“Happiness isn't a thing.”

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Diana Wynne Jones livro Fire and Hemlock

You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things."
Fonte: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 311.