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61 " If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information. "
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
62 " I'm going up to my room now, where I may die. "
63 " Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up! "
64 " You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars. "
65 " It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair. "
66 " 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. "
67 " I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober. "
68 " I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die. "
69 " A heart's a heavy burden. "
70 " She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. "
71 " 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! "
72 " That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. "
73 " Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things. "
74 " A fickle heart is the only constant in this world "
75 " Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else. "
76 " 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. "
― Diana Wynne Jones , Fire and Hemlock
77 " Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here! "
78 " 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. "
79 " She was remorseless, but she lacked method. "
80 " It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat. "