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Diana Wynne Jones, née le 16 août 1934 à Londres et morte le 26 mars 2011 à Bristol, est une auteure britannique de romans fantastiques pour enfants et adultes. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. août 1934 – 26. mars 2011
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Diana Wynne Jones: Citations en anglais

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

Diana Wynne Jones livre The Homeward Bounders

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

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

Diana Wynne Jones livre The Homeward Bounders

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

“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.”

'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 livre Fire and Hemlock

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

“It is of course a magic carpet.”

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?"
Source: Castle Series, Castle in the Air (1990), pp. 16-17.

“Happiness isn't a thing.”

Diana Wynne Jones livre 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.

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