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Diana Wynne Jones

  • chandanahas quoted2 years ago
    Sophie listened and felt sad. Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.
  • chandanahas quoted2 years ago
    “If he is, you’ll never pin him down,” Michael answered. “He hates being pinned down to anything.”
  • chandanahas quoted2 years ago
    “Howl’s very fickle,” said Calcifer. “He’s only interested until the girl falls in love with him. Then he can’t be bothered with her.”
  • chandanahas quoted2 years ago
    On the other hand, it is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
  • chandanahas quoted2 years ago
    “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?”
  • chandanahas quoted2 years ago
    Then he stood up. “I feel ill,” he announced. “I’m going to bed, where I may die.” He tottered piteously to the stairs. “Bury me beside Mrs. Pentstemmon,” he croaked as he went up them to bed
  • chandanahas quoted2 years ago
    Howl coughed piteously. “I shall go in disguise, probably as another corpse,” he said, trailing back toward the stairs
  • chandanahas quoted2 years ago
    I wondered whether to ask her if she would mind everywhere being covered with green slime when Howl’s hair went wrong; or if she minded coping with a man who had head colds like a drama queen; or being twisted round Howl’s little finger; or would it worry her that the man was a terrible coward; or always falling in love with other women;
  • Mariana Palacioshas quoted2 years ago
    it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.
  • Zaahrahas quoted2 years ago
    She cackled again as she walked on. Perhaps she was a little mad, but then old women often were.

    The fact that she's accepted she's an old woman-

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