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Diana Wynne Jones – brytyjska autorka powieści fantasy dla dzieci i dorosłych.

W Polsce znana jest za sprawą serii „Światy Chrestomanciego”, trzech powieści o ruchomym zamku oraz powieści „Spisek w Królestwie Czarów”. Jest autorką kilkudziesięciu powieści, tłumaczonych na 15 języków. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Sierpień 1934 – 26. Marzec 2011
Diana Wynne Jones: 137 cytatów0 Polubień

Diana Wynne Jones: Cytaty po angielsku

“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 książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: Howl's Moving Castle

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

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Diana Wynne Jones książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: 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 książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: Howl's Moving Castle

“She was remorseless, but she lacked method.”

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Diana Wynne Jones książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: Howl's Moving Castle

“Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.”

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Diana Wynne Jones książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: Howl's Moving Castle

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

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Diana Wynne Jones książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: 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 książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: 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

Źródło: 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 książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: 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 książka Archer's Goon

Źródło: 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 książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: 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

Źródło: 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 książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: Howl's Moving Castle

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

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Diana Wynne Jones książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: 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 książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: 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 książka The Lives of Christopher Chant

Źródło: 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

Źródło: 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 książka The Merlin Conspiracy

Źródło: 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 książka Fire and Hemlock

Źródło: Fire and Hemlock

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

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Diana Wynne Jones książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: 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 książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: 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

Źródło: Charmed Life

“I seem to have excalibured this knife.”

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Diana Wynne Jones książka Enchanted Glass

Źródło: 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 książka Howl's Moving Castle

Źródło: Howl's Moving Castle

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

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Diana Wynne Jones książka The Tough Guide To Fantasyland

Źródło: 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 książka Castle in the Air

Źródło: 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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Diana Wynne Jones

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

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Diana Wynne Jones książka Castle in the Air

Źródło: 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

Źródło: Charmed Life