02c. 1972 ADTo love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
03c. 1972 ADLearn to drive?""Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
06c. 1972 ADReally, 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. "Or maybe just dying.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
07c. 1972 ADI 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.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
08c. 1972 ADI feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
09c. 1972 ADI can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
11c. 1972 ADSo 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!Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
12c. 1972 ADLook. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
14c. 1972 ADWizard 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.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
15c. 1972 ADNothing 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 / quote ↗
16c. 1972 ADThis book will prove the following ten facts:1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there.2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch.3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity.4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight.5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast.6. An Englishman's home is his castle.7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male.8. One black eye deserves another.9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm.10. It pays to increase your word power.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
18c. 1972 ADHappiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
19c. 1972 ADTell me of this Wizard Howl of yours". Sophie's teeth chattered but she said proudly, "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
20c. 1972 ADThis is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As you can see, it's constantly growing and moving as people invent new tales to tell or find new things to believe. The older strands move out to become these spirals, where things tend to become quite crude and dangerous. They've hardened off, you see.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
21c. 1972 ADAfter this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He made me describe everything. Then he asked Good Thing 'Are there books in this mansion, too?''And pictures and jewels,' Good Thing said through me. 'What does Master wish me to fetch? There is a golden harp, a musical box like a bird, a—''Just books,' said Boy. 'I need to learn. I'm still so ignorant.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
22c. 1972 ADAfter that, all the while Millie was eating the pudding... we both tore Christopher's character to shreds. It was wonderful fun.... He drove everyone mad in Chrestomanci Castle by insisting on silk shirts and exactly the right kind of pajamas. 'And he could get them right anyway by magic,' Millie told me, 'if he wasn't too lazy to learn how.... But the thing that really annoys me is the way he never bothers to learn a person's name. If a person isn't important to him, he always forgets their name.'When Millie said this, I realized that Christopher had never once forgotten my name...Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
23c. 1972 ADBut I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.Diana Wynne Jones / quote ↗
