“"Can I eat these?" he said.
"No," said Vivian. "I'm hungry."
"I'll give you half," Sam said, plainly thinking he was being generous.”

—  Diana Wynne Jones, book A Tale of Time City

Source: A Tale of Time City (1987), p. 21.

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English children's fantasy writer 1934–2011

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