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Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

In a way it was worth it, she thought, except that it was such a total waste.

It seems that Fate has decreed that I live through my entire daydream in reality!

Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.

Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

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.

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

Then watch out. I warn you!"
"That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.

One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

Funny the way it was never enough to swear and promise just the once. You seemed to have to rethink and repromise every time the subject came up.

Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. Why I am I holding a dog full of angels?

SHE LIKES MY SPARK!!!!--Calcifer

If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.

Evidently this was the kind of man
that Estelle fell instantly in love with.

He lied about that. He didn't want to annoy you. He's a slitherer-outer, if you know what I mean, Your Majesty.

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

Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.

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

I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders.

She stared at the King. The King stared back. It was a disaster.

The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

I'm beginning to think I've led a much too sheltered life.

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

Please, your story, or I shall offend the dignitaries of my kingdom by yawning at holy things.

You go and find who you really are, and don't let anyone stop you.

Evidently she was one of those people who like to cling to a theory once they have made it.

If you were able to hear lime juice, it would sound like violins.

I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out.

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

I can't wear thethe! I want my thtwipey oneth!

What's the good of being civilized, that's what I'd like to know? It just means other people can break the rules and you can't.

Howl's voice was presently heard shouting weakly, Help me, someone! I'm dying from neglect up here!

You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty?"

~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle

Pie in a bed of raw onions. Human skull looking put-upon.
Howl

You don't give hired assassins supper, do you?" Quentin smiled. "No, but when a wolf follows your sleigh, you give it meat," he

You can tell them you're a Homeward Bounder.

At least, I suppose I can't blame Calcifer, since he's an evil demon. But you you Michael-!"
"I don't think I'm evil," Calcifer protested.

A fickle heart is the only constant in this world

Lettie, as the second daughter, was never likely to come to much,

She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

People Sophie had known all her life came and bought flowers by the bundle. None of them recognized her, and that made her feel very odd.

You are nosy," said Howl. "You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all." "But

I don't know, Your Majesty. He's a mess.

I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

The tiny princess glanced up with a shy smile. "Boyth, all," she said, in a small, lisping voice. Morgan's

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.

Being a child of Earth means more than you think,

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

There are no rules. Only principles and natural laws.

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.

Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.

SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.

I am not,' he said, 'having that lummock-de-troll glunching about this place! Trod on all my tomatoes, he did, last year.

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.

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.

Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.

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

There is very seldom any true secret.

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

I don't think I will get married," Polly said as she stood up. "I'm going to train to be a hero instead.

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.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

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.

Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

A very short burst of thought was enough to convince Abdullah that his situation, despite the chains, would be very much worse if he became a toad.

Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!

We can't all be Mad Hatters,

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

When have you looked?" said Sophie.
"Oh, how your rears flap and your long nose twitches", Howl croaked.

Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.

You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

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?

Howl,heart is a heavy burden.

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.

I seem to have excalibured this knife.

Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

Beauty isn't made of sugar.

Things are going round and round in my head
or maybe my head is going round and round in things.

Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest

And said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.

...don't spoil my learning process!

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

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.

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie