Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it? she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet.I'm dying of boredom, Howl said pathetically...
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. Wh...
If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.
My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
Look at this! he shouted look at it! what has that one-woman force of chaos done to these spells?Sophie and Michael whirled round and looked at Howl. His hair was wet, but, apart from that, neither of...
I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
I feel ill, [Howl] announced. I'm going to bed, where I may die.
In a way it was worth it, she thought, except that it was such a total waste.
Learn to drive?Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.
I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
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 ho...
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.
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!
That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
Horses are of a breed unique to Fantasyland. They are capable of galloping full-tilt all day without a rest. Sometimes they do not require food or water. They never cast shoes, go lame or put their ho...
Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.
He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend? The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it...
A heart's a heavy burden.