“Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.”

— Diana Wynne Jones, book Howl's Moving Castle

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English children's fantasy writer 1934–2011

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