“"Look here," Gerald said, "what do you think of Giants?"
There was the kind of pause that happens when people do not like to say what they really think.”

— Diana Wynne Jones , book Power of Three

Source: Power of Three (1976), p. 166.

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English children's fantasy writer 1934–2011

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