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“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!”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“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!”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

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

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Castle in the Air

Source: Castle in the Air

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

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“A heart's a heavy burden.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

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

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock

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

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“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 book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock

“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.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“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.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“She was remorseless, but she lacked method.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

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

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

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

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“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.”

Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

Source: House of Many Ways

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

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

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

Diana Wynne Jones book Archer's Goon

Source: Archer's Goon