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2aa5c20 I think we ought to live happily ever after. love Diana Wynne Jones
f0294c1 I hope your bacon burns. Diana Wynne Jones
308979c You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want. pigsty mess Diana Wynne Jones
652775e Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all. Diana Wynne Jones
c25202e If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information. Diana Wynne Jones
9630e0e I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me." marriage Diana Wynne Jones
cd9e5ab I'm going up to my room now, where I may die. howl Diana Wynne Jones
dba21b9 Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. "I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying." humor howl-pendragon insuferable sophie-hatter lazy Diana Wynne Jones
1db19a9 Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him." sober drunk howl Diana Wynne Jones
b6bab1e Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up! Diana Wynne Jones
fe5eb0d I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so. humor Diana Wynne Jones
9e33595 You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars. Diana Wynne Jones
e0eccf3 It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair. tantrums Diana Wynne Jones
e318524 I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes." "Those are spiders." Diana Wynne Jones
24c705b In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes. once-upon-a-time Diana Wynne Jones
af79694 I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober. Diana Wynne Jones
bdefc8b I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die." young-adult fiction humor Diana Wynne Jones
c2c5e58 Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time. Diana Wynne Jones
af00a0b My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me. lying humour salvation Diana Wynne Jones
cc05fae A heart's a heavy burden. Diana Wynne Jones
7ded511 I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie." -- sophie Diana Wynne Jones
a3bfda4 I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did you to the King? Diana Wynne Jones
952488e So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!" humor cowardice Diana Wynne Jones
61b0812 To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much. love Diana Wynne Jones
dab7d3c More about Howl? Sophie thought desperately. I have to blacken his name! Her mind was such a blank that for a second it actually seemed to her that Howl had no faults at all. How stupid! 'Well, he's fickle, careless, selfish, and hysterical,' she said. 'Half the time I think he doesn't care what happens to anyone as long as alright--but then I find out how awfully kind he's been to someone. Then I think he's kind just when it suits him--o.. howl-s-moving-castle sophie howl Diana Wynne Jones
f18c001 She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. Diana Wynne Jones
6b09785 By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast!" howl-s-moving-castle sophie howl Diana Wynne Jones
418b076 I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across! people humor cheat Diana Wynne Jones
1f06a57 That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. Diana Wynne Jones
95ace9a Nobody gets praised for the right reasons. inspirational praise right Diana Wynne Jones
e5781e8 Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things. Diana Wynne Jones
2e6894f Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs! humor vanity Diana Wynne Jones
41c8b40 A fickle heart is the only constant in this world Diana Wynne Jones
b57ed45 Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel. Diana Wynne Jones
8cb6095 Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else. Diana Wynne Jones
1aea600 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
8f459c6 Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything." "Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies." "What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you .. sophie howl Diana Wynne Jones
62e87dd Howl's voice was presently heard shouting weakly, "Help me, someone! I'm dying from neglect up here!" Diana Wynne Jones
bb611ed Meanwhile a certain amount of moaning and groaning was coming from upstairs. Sophie kept muttering to the dog and ignored it. A loud, hollow coughing followed, dying away into more moaning. Crashing sneezes followed the coughing, each one rattling the window and all the doors. Sophie found those harder to ignore, but she managed. Poot-pooooot! went a blown nose, like a bassoon in a tunnel. The coughing started again, mingled with moans. Sne.. Diana Wynne Jones
94b2dc2 This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male.. Diana Wynne Jones
6d073a5 Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or later-- probably sooner-- I'd look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I'd be disappointed in you if I didn't see you." "Are you off to the iceberg today?" Sophie retorted." humor Diana Wynne Jones
d4b8b9e Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman." wales welsh Diana Wynne Jones
324cbba She was remorseless, but she lacked method. howl-s moving Diana Wynne Jones
8b701dd What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too? humor lettie-hatter Diana Wynne Jones
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