Diana Wynne Jones

“In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three.”

“Most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.”

“It is a great relief to be lazy.”

“I have a theory that all human beings are witches and wizards, but they don't know it.”

“The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.”

“There is no point in using magic to kill when ordinary methods will do.”

“Really, he thought, if you were going to have a soul, you ought to have a landscape to go with it.”

“Things are going to get unimaginably worse, and then they are going to get better.”

“There is nothing so nice as a kitchen.”

“When you are a wizard you have to take care of your friends.”

“He had never been able to understand how people could be so illogical all the time. He was always doing his best to preserve logic.”

“Most people are not good people. They are just living their lives, and you happened to be in their way.”

“Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, cry whenever you need to, read novels and write letters to your friends.”

“Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look so pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew.”

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”