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But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them
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And 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.
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The truth between two people always cuts two ways.
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Beauty isn't made of sugar.
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I daresay she is as proud of you as I am. We are two old ladies who both had a hand in forming you. You are, one might say, our joint creation.""Don't you think I did any of me myself, then?" Howl asked. "Put in just a few touches of my own?""A few, and those not altogether to my liking," Mrs Pentstemmon replied.
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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.
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Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.
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It never ceases to amaze me,” [Chrestomanci] said, “the way people always manage to worry about the wrong things. My dear sir, do you realise that you, your son, and four of your pupils, are all likely to be burnt unless we do something? And here are you worrying about timetables.
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If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
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