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Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.
A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.
Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.
Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.
In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.
Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.
Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!
Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.
One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
Then watch out. I warn you!" "That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.
When have you looked?" said Sophie. "Oh, how your rears flap and your long nose twitches", Howl croaked.
I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.
To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.
Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.
Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!
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.
Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!
You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty?" ~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle
If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!
And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.
I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.
Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.
All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.
Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?
As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.
But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them
He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.
I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true.
Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).
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.
It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.
...if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. [...] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.
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.
And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.
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.
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.
I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it.
So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!
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
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.
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.
Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.
This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.