Quotes from Fire and Hemlock

“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

“Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

“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.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

“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.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

“The truth between two people always cuts two ways.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

“I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

“But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

“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.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

“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?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

“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.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

“If you were able to hear lime juice, it would sound like violins.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

“You've rotted your mind with reading books.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

“Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

“That is the path of Wickedness, though some call it the Road to Heaven.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from Fire and Hemlock

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