“If nothing happened, then there's nothing to remember," she told herself, trying to sound philosophical. "Of course there's nowhere to start.”

— Diana Wynne Jones , book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 14.

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English children's fantasy writer 1934–2011

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