01c. 1972 ADIn a way it was worth it, she thought, except that it was such a total waste.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
03c. 1972 ADCity of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together. . . .There have been cities of EVIL Wizards in the past. You will occasionally come across the sites of these, reduced to a glassy slag during the ultimate disagreement.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
04c. 1972 ADPolaris often remarks to Sol that Sirius loses his temper much less often these days. But the one sure way to send him into a flaming rage is to suggest that he finds a new Companion. Sirius will not hear of it. The small white sphere circling his goes untenanted, because he hopes that what Miss Smith said is true.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
05c. 1972 ADPeople are wrong when they say things like, “I didn’t have time to think.” If you’re really worried, or really miserable, those feelings come welling up around the edges of the other things you’re doing, so that you are in the feelings even when you’re working hard at something else.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
06c. 1972 ADSome people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
07c. 1972 ADAs she turned left to the gateway, it occurred to her that swimming was only one of a very large number of things she had no idea what to do. Peter had been right to object to her ignorance. "It's not that I'm lazy," she explained to Waif as they arrived in what seemed to be stables, "or stupid. I've just not bothered to look round the edges of Mother's way of doing things, you see.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
08c. 1972 ADAnd suddenly, as if her head had cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they’re only in my own mind, she thought, they’re there and worth fighting for. I mustn’t give in.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
09c. 1972 ADWhen you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
10c. 1972 ADOh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
12c. 1972 ADThe demon at length fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sophie knew - or she thought not, until she distinctly heard the word "saucepan" in it several times...Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
13c. 1972 ADIf 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!Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
14c. 1972 ADI hate dialect. It gets in the way. If there is a need for dialect, you can render it quite easily by reproducing the rythm of that form of speech. Then you don't need to bother with silly spellingsDiana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
16c. 1972 ADBut most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand themDiana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
19c. 1972 ADController Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
21c. 1972 ADI mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
