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Diana Wynne Jones è stata una scrittrice inglese.

Viveva a Bristol con il marito e i figli. Scrivere è sempre stata la sua passione, fin da bambina, quando il padre faceva soffrire lei e le sue sorelle di mancanza di libri. Ha scritto più di trenta romanzi, i quali hanno riscosso successo in tutto il mondo, ma non tutti sono stati già pubblicati in Italia. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Agosto 1934 – 26. Marzo 2011
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Diana Wynne Jones Frasi e Citazioni

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“Penso che dovremmo vivere felici e contenti.”

Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket.
"I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“She was remorseless, but she lacked method.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“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.”

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Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

Origine: House of Many Ways

“Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“Learn to drive?"
"Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Archer's Goon

Origine: Archer's Goon

“It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place.
Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said.
Oh shut up!" Sophie said, standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up?”

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Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

Origine: House of Many Ways

“Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“You have no right to make jigsaws of people.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro The Lives of Christopher Chant

Origine: The Lives of Christopher Chant

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

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Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

Origine: House of Many Ways

“Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro The Merlin Conspiracy

Origine: The Merlin Conspiracy

“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.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Fire and Hemlock

Origine: Fire and Hemlock

“I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.”

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Diana Wynne Jones Charmed Life

Origine: Charmed Life

“I seem to have excalibured this knife.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Enchanted Glass

Origine: Enchanted Glass

“But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Howl's Moving Castle

Origine: Howl's Moving Castle

“Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro The Tough Guide To Fantasyland

Origine: The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

“If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Castle in the Air

Origine: Castle in the Air

“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.”

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“A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.”

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Diana Wynne Jones libro Castle in the Air

Origine: Castle in the Air

“Then watch out. I warn you!"

"That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.”

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Diana Wynne Jones Charmed Life

Origine: Charmed Life

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