1. Frases
  2. Autores
  3. Diana Wynne Jones

Frases de Diana Wynne Jones
página 5

Diana Wynne Jones [1]​ fue una escritora británica, principalmente de novelas de fantasía para niños y adultos, así como una pequeña cantidad de no ficción. Algunos de sus trabajos más conocidos incluyen las series de Chrestomanci y El castillo ambulante. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. agosto 1934 – 26. marzo 2011
Diana Wynne Jones: 146 citas18 Me gusta

Frases célebres de Diana Wynne Jones

“Tienes un instinto especial, Sophie —continuó Howl—. Contigo nada está a salvo. Si decidiera cortejar a una doncella que viviera en un iceberg en el medio del océano, antes o después, probablemente antes, levantaría la vista y te vería volando por allí en una escoba. De hecho, me llevaría una decepción si no fuera así.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Howl's Moving Castle

“Por eso me gustan las arañas. Si al principio no lo consiguen, lo vuelven a intentar. Yo lo intento —dijo con gran pesar—. Pero la culpa es mía, porque hice un trato hace años y ahora jamás seré capaz de amar a nadie de verdad.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Howl's Moving Castle

“Pero quería hacer algo, no estaba segura de qué, algo que fuera un poco mas interesante que adornar sombreros.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Howl's Moving Castle

“Quizá —dijo— deberías estar más pendiente de a quién muerde tu perro.
—¡Yo no! —dijo Jamal—. Soy un creyente del libre albedrío. Si mi perro elige odiar
a toda la raza humana menos a mí, es libre de hacerlo.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro Castle in the Air

Castle in the Air

“¡Por qué será que siempre que voy a Gales vuelvo con un resfriado! —gimió Howl, y se conjuró un montón de pañuelos a la vez.”

Diana Wynne Jones

“¡Estoy aquí para limpiar! -le gritó Sophie.
-Entonces vaya encontrándole otro sentido a su vida. -dijo Howl.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Howl's Moving Castle

“Howl se compra ropa carísima, porque dice que nadie querría contratar a un mago con pinta de no ser capaz de ganar dinero con su oficio.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Howl's Moving Castle

“Pero ahora se daba cuenta de que había cosas que solo era capaz de hacer cuando ya no le quedaba ninguna excusa.”

Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones: Frases en inglés

“You wouldn't believe how lonely you get.”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones libro The Homeward Bounders

Fuente: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 36.

“That was the trouble with Joris. He was nice. You ended up liking him, whatever you did. Even when you wanted to shake him till his head fell off.”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones libro The Homeward Bounders

Fuente: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 131.

“I was a thoroughly hardened Homeward Bounder. There seemed nothing I didn't know.
Then I ran into Helen. My friendly neighbourhood enemy. There really was nothing like Helen on any world I'd ever been to. I sometimes didn't think she was human at all.”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones libro The Homeward Bounders

Fuente: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 70.

“Rosenberg, Teya; Hixon, Martha P.; Scapple, Sharon M.; White, Donna R. Diana Wynne Jones - An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom (New York: Peter Lang, 2002). ISBN 082045687X”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones

References

“"Unprintable things!" I said - only I didn't say that. I really said them.”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones libro The Homeward Bounders

Fuente: The Homeward Bounders (1981), p. 56.

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

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones libro Hexwood

Fuente: Hexwood (1993), p. 261.

“"If you call me V. S. once again," she said, "I shall scream - I warn you!"
Sam patted her arm. "You need a butter-pie," he said kindly.”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones libro A Tale of Time City

Fuente: A Tale of Time City (1987), p. 73.

“I never said my wishes were supposed to do anyone any good," said the genie. "In fact, I swore that they would always do as much harm as possible.”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones

Fuente: Castle Series, Castle in the Air (1990), pp. 102-103.

“"Heroes see things like that," he said.
"It's obviously an enchantment of some kind," Polly agreed, humouring him.
"It must be," he said. It sounded as if he was humouring her.”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones libro Fire and Hemlock

Fuente: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 34.

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones

First lines.
Fuente: Dalemark Quartet, Drowned Ammet (1977), p. 223.

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

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones libro Fire and Hemlock

Fuente: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 14.

“Amazing. You're here, but you can't do a simple thing like raising light, or do I mean lazing right? Whichever. You can't. Why not?"
"No one ever showed me how," I said.
He swayed about, looking solemn. "I quote," he said. "I'm very well read in the literature of several worlds, you know, and I quote. What do they teach them in these schools?”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones

Fuente: Magids Series, The Merlin Conspiracy (2003), p. 113.

“"Can I eat these?" he said.
"No," said Vivian. "I'm hungry."
"I'll give you half," Sam said, plainly thinking he was being generous.”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones libro A Tale of Time City

Fuente: A Tale of Time City (1987), p. 21.

“Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people’s lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones

'About the Author', The Many Worlds of Diana Wynne Jones http://www.dianawynnejones.co.uk/author/default.aspx (HarperCollins, 2005). Retrieved June 14 2005.

“Pretending was like that. Things seemed to make themselves up, once you got going.”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones libro Fire and Hemlock

Fuente: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 29.

“It is of course a magic carpet.”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones

Abdullah had heard that one before. He bowed over his tucked-up hands. "Many and various are the virtues said to reside in carpets," he agreed. "Which one does the poet of the sands claim for this? Does it welcome a man home to his tent? Does it bring peace to the hearth? Or maybe," he said, poking the frayed edge suggestively with one toe, "it is said to never wear out?"
Fuente: Castle Series, Castle in the Air (1990), pp. 16-17.

“Happiness isn't a thing.”

Help us translate this quote

Diana Wynne Jones libro Fire and Hemlock

You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things."
Fuente: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 311.