“And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.”

—  Diana Wynne Jones, book Howl's Moving Castle

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English children's fantasy writer 1934–2011

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