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Please, your story, or I shall offend the dignitaries of my kingdom by yawning at holy things.

— Diana Wynne Jones Hexwood (1993)

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"If nothing happened, then there's nothing to remember," she told herself, trying to sound philosophical. "Of course there's nowhere to start."

Fire and Hemlock (1985)

You wouldn't believe how lonely you get.

The Homeward Bounders (1981)

One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

Power of Three (1976)

"Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things."

Fire and Hemlock (1985)

People may wonder how Mitt came to join in the Holand Sea Festival, carrying a bomb, and what he thought he was doing. Mitt wondered himself by the end.

Drowned Ammet (1977)

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