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He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily."
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Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.
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Diana Wynne Jones |
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You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find the things I need for my transport spells if you tidy them up.' So there was probably a bundle of souls or a box of chewed hearts somewhere out here, Sophie thought. She felt really thwarted. 'Tidying up is what I'm for!' she shouted at Howl. 'Then you must think of a new meaning for your life,' Howl said.
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howl-s-moving-castle
sophie
howl
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It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.
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Diana Wynne Jones |
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Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
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Diana Wynne Jones |
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All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it.
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Diana Wynne Jones |
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Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger."
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humour
life
passenger
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Diana Wynne Jones |
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Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?"
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Horses are of a breed unique to Fantasyland. They are capable of galloping full-tilt all day without a rest. Sometimes they do not require food or water. They never cast shoes, go lame or put their hooves down holes, except when the Management deems it necessary, as when the forces of the Dark Lord are only half an hour behind. They never otherwise stumble. Nor do they ever make life difficult for Tourists by biting or kicking their riders ..
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humor
horses
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Look at this!" he shouted "look at it! what has that one-woman force of chaos done to these spells?" Sophie and Michael whirled round and looked at Howl. His hair was wet, but, apart from that, neither of them could see that it looked any different. "If you mean me-" Sophie began. "I do mean you! Look!" Howl shrieked. He sat down with a thump on the three-legged stool and jabbed at his wet head with his fingers. "Look. Survey. Inspect. My ..
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Annoyed?" said Sophie. "Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?"
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humor
howl-s-moving-castle
sophie-hatter
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You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place. Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said. Oh shut up!" Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up?"
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Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.
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When I say "narrative", I do not mean simply the plot, I mean considerably more. Plots and their shapes--the bare outlines of stories--were something I know J.R.R. Tolkien himself was interested in. When I was an undergraduate, I went to a course of lectures he gave on the subject--at least, I think that was the subject, because Tolkien was all but inaudible. He evidently hated lecturing, and I suspect he also hated giving his thoughts away..
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The only good Dorig is a dead Dorig."
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Diana Wynne Jones |
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You wouldn't believe how lonely you get.
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Diana Wynne Jones |
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Unprintable things!" I said - only I didn't say that. I really said them.
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Diana Wynne Jones |
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Pretending was like that. Things seemed to make themselves up, once you got going.
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Diana Wynne Jones |
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417d73e
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Please, your story, or I shall offend the dignitaries of my kingdom by yawning at holy things.
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