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“Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

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

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“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.”

Diana Wynne Jones

“Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 311.

“"So you'll be wanting all these hydrangeas chopped down, then?"
"Whatever for?" Charmain said.
"I like to chop things down," the kobold explained. "Chief pleasure of gardening."”

Diana Wynne Jones

Source: Castle Series, House of Many Ways (2008), p. 57.

“"Don't you even feel how marvellous it is to have talked to one of the Little People?" I said.
"No, not as the main thing," Grundo grunted. "If you think like that, then you're treating him like something in a museum, not as a person."”

Diana Wynne Jones

Source: Magids Series, The Merlin Conspiracy (2003), p. 150.

“"It looks as if you need only enter the field for long enough to recognise the bannus and take hold of it. Then you order it to stop."
"Fight my way through a mob of dancing girls and snatch the dulcimer off the leading damsel," Reigner Two said morbidly. "I can just see myself. I think the fools who invented this thing might have thought of a simpler way to stop it. What's wrong with a red switch?"”

Diana Wynne Jones book Hexwood

Source: Hexwood (1993), p. 138.

“Adara was impressed. "How do you know that?"
"I learnt it," said Hathil. "It pays to learn things."”

Diana Wynne Jones book Power of Three

Source: Power of Three (1976), p. 25.

“"I don't believe this!" Peter said. "Why is it respectable not to know how to do things? Is it respectable to light a fire with a bar of soap?"
"That," Charmain said haughtily, "was an accident."”

Diana Wynne Jones

Source: Castle Series, House of Many Ways (2008), p. 109.

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

Diana Wynne Jones book The Homeward Bounders

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

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

Diana Wynne Jones book Hexwood

Source: Hexwood (1993), p. 261.

“"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.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

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

“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?”

Diana Wynne Jones

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

“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.”

Diana Wynne Jones

'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.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

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

“Happiness isn't a thing.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

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