{"author":"Diana Wynne Jones","author_id":"Diana+Wynne+Jones","total_quotes":69,"quotes":[{"text":"Female Mercenary. This will be a companion on your Tour. She is usually tall, thin and wiry, silent, and neurotic. Sex scares her. This is because she either came from a nunnery or was raped as a child. Or both. Somehow this inspired her to become a mercenary and she is very good at her job. You can rely on her absolutely in a fight. She can usually kill two people at once while guarding your back in between. The rest of the time, she will irritate you with lots of punctilious weapons cleaning and a perpetual insistence that a proper watch be kept. Mostly, she will have no magic talents, but sometimes, in an emergency, she will come up with a gift or vision. You will end up grudgingly admiring her.","author":"Diana Wynne Jones","tags":["archetypes","fantasy","humor"],"id":112,"author_id":"Diana+Wynne+Jones"},{"text":"I'm going to bed, where I may die.","author":"Diana Wynne Jones","tags":["best","drama-queen"],"id":11830,"author_id":"Diana+Wynne+Jones"},{"text":"Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He turned around to say it. But the folds had already rippled flat and nothing was the same anymore....","author":"Diana Wynne Jones","tags":["apologies","children","magic"],"id":37576,"author_id":"Diana+Wynne+Jones"},{"text":"As 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.","author":"Diana Wynne Jones","tags":["ignorance"],"id":38520,"author_id":"Diana+Wynne+Jones"},{"text":"There is very seldom any true secret.","author":"Diana Wynne Jones","tags":["secrets"],"id":40419,"author_id":"Diana+Wynne+Jones"},{"text":"Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.","author":"Diana Wynne Jones","tags":["gossip"],"id":46631,"author_id":"Diana+Wynne+Jones"},{"text":"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.","author":"Diana Wynne Jones","tags":["humor","wales","welsh"],"id":48636,"author_id":"Diana+Wynne+Jones"},{"text":"City 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.","author":"Diana Wynne Jones","tags":["city","disagreement","evil","good","harmony","wizards"],"id":49080,"author_id":"Diana+Wynne+Jones"},{"text":"Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.","author":"Diana Wynne Jones","tags":["libraries"],"id":58455,"author_id":"Diana+Wynne+Jones"},{"text":"And, suddenly, as if her head 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.","author":"Diana Wynne Jones","tags":["belief","determination","diana-wynne-jones","hexwood"],"id":60801,"author_id":"Diana+Wynne+Jones"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":69,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}