“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

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English children's fantasy writer 1934–2011

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