R.I.P. Miss Jones. Oh, but she was amazing. She was dyslexic.
Diana Wynne Jones passed away today after battling with illness for a very long time. I am unreasonably sad about this. Or maybe not so unreasonably. The woman was a genius and touched so many people in twelve different worlds. So, for everyone, my favorite sentence from Howl's Moving Castle, which makes me laugh like I'm 8 all over again, and which I like to pretend shows exactly what kind of woman she was:
"But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom one, and fell up them on his face."
"But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom one, and fell up them on his face."