Diana Wynne Jones: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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!”

“She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.”

“Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!”

“Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.”

“Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.”

“A heart's a heavy burden.”

“Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.”

“A fickle heart is the only constant in this world”

“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.”

“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.”

“What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?”

“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.”

“She was remorseless, but she lacked method.”

“Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.”

“Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.”

“Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.”

“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.”

“Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!”

“Learn to drive?"
"Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.”