Diana Wynne Jones Quotations

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.” “No! No!” the star crackled desperately. “That’s wrong! I’m supposed to die!” “But I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it gently. “No!” cried the star. “I’d rather die!

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.

I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

I seem to have excalibured this knife.

All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it.

But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.