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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1) QUOTES

Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1) QUOTES

1 " I think we ought to live happily ever after. "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

2 " You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want. "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

3 " My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me. "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

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

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

5 " What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too? "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

6 " Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or later— probably sooner— I’d look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I’d be disappointed in you if I didn’t see you.”
“Are you off to the iceberg today?” Sophie retorted. "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

7 " But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right. "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

8 " I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.”
“No! No!” the star crackled desperately. “That’s wrong! I’m supposed to die!”
“But I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it gently.
“No!” cried the star. “I’d rather die! "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

9 " 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? "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

10 " Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about. "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

11 " Howl pointed a shaky hand up toward the canopy of his bed. “That’s why I love spiders. ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, again.’ I keep trying,” he said with great sadness. “But I brought it on myself by making a bargain some years ago, and I know I shall never be able to love anyone properly now.”
The water running out of Howl’s eyes was definitely tears now. "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

12 " He gave Sophie the smile which had no doubt charmed the Witch of the Waste and possibly Lettie too, firing it along the fork, across the cream, straight into Sophie’s eyes, dazzlingly. “If you can bully Calcifer, the King should give you no trouble at all.”

Sophie stared through the dazzle and said nothing. This, she thought, was where she slithered out. She was leaving. It was too bad about Calcifer’s contract. She had had enough of Howl. First green slime, then glaring at her for something Calcifer had done quite freely, and now this! Tomorrow she would slip off to Upper Folding and tell Lettie all about it. "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

13 " Is something the matter?” Calcifer asked.

“Yes. My heart. There was a scarecrow at the door!” Sophie gasped.

“What has a scarecrow to do with your heart?” Calcifer asked.

“It was trying to get in here. It gave me a terrible fright. And my heart—but you wouldn’t understand, you silly young demon!” Sophie panted. “You haven’t got a heart.”

“Yes I have,” Calcifer said, as proudly as he had revealed his arm. “Down in the glowing part under the logs. And don’t call me young. I’m a good million years older than you are! Can I reduce the speed of the castle now? "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

14 " He held out his hand to Sophie, just like Mrs. Pentstemmon, but a little less royally. Sophie levered herself up, wondering if she was meant to kiss this hand or not. But since she felt more like raising her stick and beating the King over the head with it, she shook the King's hand and gave a creaking little curtsy. "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

15 " Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support. "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

16 " I'm going to bed, where I may die. "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

17 " Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping. "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

18 " I hope your bacon burns. "

― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

19 " 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 (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

20 " 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)