“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

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English children's fantasy writer 1934–2011

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