“I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.”

—  Diana Wynne Jones , book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock

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English children's fantasy writer 1934–2011

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