# Quote — Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

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

- Author: [Diana Wynne Jones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/diana-wynne-jones.md)
- Book: [Fire and Hemlock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/diana-wynne-jones/fire-and-hemlock.md)
- Page: 29
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diana_Wynne_Jones#Fire_and_Hemlock_(1985)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/diana-wynne-jones/fire-and-hemlock/pretending-was-like

## More from this book

> To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

p. 392 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/diana-wynne-jones/fire-and-hemlock/to-love-someone.md)

> "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.

p. 34 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/diana-wynne-jones/fire-and-hemlock/heroes-see-things.md)

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

p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/diana-wynne-jones/fire-and-hemlock/if-nothing-happened.md)