Fire and Hemlock
Diana Wynne Jones
Top 10 Best Quotes
“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”
“Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.”
“Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.”
“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.”
“The truth between two people always cuts two ways.”
“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.”
“But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them”
“I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.”
“Mr. Lynn gave her one of his considering looks. "People are strange," he said. "Usually they're much stranger than you think. Start from there and you'll never be unpleasantly surprised. Do you fancy doughnuts?”
“Polly finished her huge narrative during the summer term. The day after she had finished it, she went round with the oddest mixture of feelings, pride at having got it done, sick of the sight of it and glad it was over, and completely lost without it.”
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Book Keywords:
happiness, fairy-tales, contentment, truth, writing, dragons
