Thing are going round and round my head, or maybe my head is going round and round in things. -(Diana Wynne Jones)Howl's Moving Castle
Sophie, I'm dying of boredom in here, or maybe just dying. -(Diana Wynne Jones)Howl's Moving Castle
"You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"’I think we ought to live happily ever after,’ and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try.
‘It should be hair-raising,’ added Howl.
‘And you'll exploit me,’ Sophie said.
‘And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.’”— Diana Wynne Jones
"’Go to bed, you fool,’ Calcifer said sleepily. ‘You're drunk.’
‘Who, me?’ said Howl. ‘I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold sober.’ He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so." — Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)
"Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information and I’m not allowed to do that." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"I hope your bacon burns." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time." — Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)
"Bloody hell! I've got a hangover!"
‘No, you hit you head on the floor’
‘I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.’
‘I’m right here.’— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did you do to the King?" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again’." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"Nobody gets praised for the right reasons." — Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)
"Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"She was remorseless, but she lacked method." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"'She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.' -the Witch of the Waste" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"Meanwhile a certain amount of moaning and groaning was coming from upstairs. Sophie kept muttering to the dog and ignored it. A loud, hollow coughing followed, dying away into more moaning. Crashing sneezes followed the coughing, each one rattling the window and all the doors. Sophie found those harder to ignore, but she managed. Poot-pooooot! went a blown nose, a bassoon in a tunnel. The coughing started again, mingled with moans. Sneezes mixed with the moans and the coughs, and the sounds rose to a crescendo in which Howl seemed to be managing to cough, groan, blow his nose, sneeze, and wail gently all at the same time. The doors rattled, the beams in the ceiling shook, and one of Calcifer’s logs rolled off onto the hearth.
‘All right, all right, I get the message!’ Sophie said, dumping the log back into the grate. ‘It’ll be green slime next.’" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it." — Diana Wynne Jones (House of Many Ways)
"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 (The Lives of Christopher Chant)
"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!’" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"’I feel ill,’ Howl announced. ‘I'm going to bed, where I may die.’" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"’Wizard Howl,’ said Wizard Suliman. ‘I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.’" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman." — Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)
"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)
“’Tell me of this wizard Howl of yours.’
Sophie’s teeth chattered, but she said proudly, ‘He’s the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he’d only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he’s sly and selfish and vain as a peacock, and you can’t pin him down to anything.’
‘Indeed?’ asked Abdullah. ‘Strange that you should speak so proudly of such a list of vices, most loving of ladies.’
‘What do you mean, vices?’ Sophie asked angrily. ‘I was just describing Howl.’” — Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)
“’You can clean the webs out if you want to, but don’t kill the spiders’ said Howl.
‘But they’ll just make more webs!’ Sophie exclaimed.
‘Exactly.’ Howl grinned.” — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
Sophie, I'm dying of boredom in here, or maybe just dying. -(Diana Wynne Jones)Howl's Moving Castle
"You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"’I think we ought to live happily ever after,’ and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try.
‘It should be hair-raising,’ added Howl.
‘And you'll exploit me,’ Sophie said.
‘And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.’”— Diana Wynne Jones
"’Go to bed, you fool,’ Calcifer said sleepily. ‘You're drunk.’
‘Who, me?’ said Howl. ‘I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold sober.’ He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so." — Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)
"Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information and I’m not allowed to do that." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"I hope your bacon burns." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time." — Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)
"Bloody hell! I've got a hangover!"
‘No, you hit you head on the floor’
‘I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.’
‘I’m right here.’— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did you do to the King?" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again’." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"Nobody gets praised for the right reasons." — Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)
"Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"She was remorseless, but she lacked method." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol." — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"'She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.' -the Witch of the Waste" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"Meanwhile a certain amount of moaning and groaning was coming from upstairs. Sophie kept muttering to the dog and ignored it. A loud, hollow coughing followed, dying away into more moaning. Crashing sneezes followed the coughing, each one rattling the window and all the doors. Sophie found those harder to ignore, but she managed. Poot-pooooot! went a blown nose, a bassoon in a tunnel. The coughing started again, mingled with moans. Sneezes mixed with the moans and the coughs, and the sounds rose to a crescendo in which Howl seemed to be managing to cough, groan, blow his nose, sneeze, and wail gently all at the same time. The doors rattled, the beams in the ceiling shook, and one of Calcifer’s logs rolled off onto the hearth.
‘All right, all right, I get the message!’ Sophie said, dumping the log back into the grate. ‘It’ll be green slime next.’" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it." — Diana Wynne Jones (House of Many Ways)
"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 (The Lives of Christopher Chant)
"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!’" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"’I feel ill,’ Howl announced. ‘I'm going to bed, where I may die.’" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"’Wizard Howl,’ said Wizard Suliman. ‘I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.’" — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
"Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman." — Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)
"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)
“’Tell me of this wizard Howl of yours.’
Sophie’s teeth chattered, but she said proudly, ‘He’s the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he’d only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he’s sly and selfish and vain as a peacock, and you can’t pin him down to anything.’
‘Indeed?’ asked Abdullah. ‘Strange that you should speak so proudly of such a list of vices, most loving of ladies.’
‘What do you mean, vices?’ Sophie asked angrily. ‘I was just describing Howl.’” — Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)
“’You can clean the webs out if you want to, but don’t kill the spiders’ said Howl.
‘But they’ll just make more webs!’ Sophie exclaimed.
‘Exactly.’ Howl grinned.” — Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
