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“Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Not likely!” Howl yelled. “I’m a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell my self I’m not doing it!”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Castle in the Air

Source: Castle in the Air

“And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Dark Lord of Derkholm

Source: Dark Lord of Derkholm

“Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before."
Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Enchanted Glass

Source: Enchanted Glass

“SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.”

Diana Wynne Jones book The Tough Guide To Fantasyland

Source: The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

“Calcifer," Sophie said, "I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you?" "It would if anyone else broke it," Calcifer said hoarsely. "That's why I asked you to do it.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Beauty isn't made of sugar.”

Diana Wynne Jones book The Game

Source: The Game

“The truth between two people always cuts two ways.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock

“I feel ill,” he announced. “I’m going to bed, where I may die.” He tottered piteously to the stairs. “Bury me beside Mrs. Pentstemmon,” he croaked as he went up then to bed.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“… don't spoil my learning process!”

Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

Source: House of Many Ways

“There is very seldom any true secret.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Deep Secret

Source: Deep Secret

“I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock

“But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them”

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock

“But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?”

Diana Wynne Jones book Enchanted Glass

Source: Enchanted Glass