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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.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“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?”

Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

Source: House of Many Ways

“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?”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“You have no right to make jigsaws of people.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“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?”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.”

Diana Wynne Jones book The Lives of Christopher Chant

Source: The Lives of Christopher Chant

“In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.”

Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

Source: House of Many Ways

“Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.”

Diana Wynne Jones book The Merlin Conspiracy

Source: The Merlin Conspiracy

“I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock

“I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.”

Diana Wynne Jones Charmed Life

Source: Charmed Life

“I seem to have excalibured this knife.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Enchanted Glass

Source: Enchanted Glass

“You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!”

Diana Wynne Jones book Castle in the Air

Source: Castle in the Air

“But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.”

Diana Wynne Jones book The Tough Guide To Fantasyland

Source: The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

“If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!”

Diana Wynne Jones book Castle in the Air

Source: Castle in the Air

“All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.”

Diana Wynne Jones

“A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Castle in the Air

Source: Castle in the Air

“Then watch out. I warn you!"

"That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.”

Diana Wynne Jones Charmed Life

Source: Charmed Life