Black Maria Quotes

“There goes Mig with her happy endings again," Chris said. But I don't care. I like happy endings. And I asked Chris why something should be truer just because it's unhappy. He couldn't answer.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Black Maria

“What's the good of being civilized, that's what I'd like to know? It just means other people can break the rules and you can't.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Black Maria

“I think it was then that it dawned on me that Mum wasn't going to notice Chris was missing. She has been made so that she thinks Chris is just round the corner all the time. She doesn't realise that she never sees him. I don't know why I didn't understand earlier. If Aunt Maria can turn Chris into a wolf, she's surely strong enough to do this to Mum- except that it seems a different kind of thing, much more natural and ordinary, and I didn't really think she could do both kinds.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Black Maria