Quotes from book

Howl's Moving Castle

“My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.”

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

“What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?”

“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!”

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

“I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.”

“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.”

“I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders.”

“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!”

“She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.”

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

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

“I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.”

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

“It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.”

“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?”

“I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did youto the King?”

“If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.”

“Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.”