Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults.
A heart's a heavy burden.
I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes. " "Those are spiders.
You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-
Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.
Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!
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.
. . . if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around. ” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. [. . . ] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.
Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
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?
Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
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.
Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances
Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!
I think my moment of revelation came when I saw this young man come on court in the most flamboyant clothes. He had a sweet smile and questionably blonde hair and a generally chirpy glamour that in fact concealed huge skill. When he was interviewed he confessed to hating to get angry and it was also said that he slithered out of winning when it came to the big matches. And I thought, My God! This Andre Agassi is the image of Howl in my book HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE!
Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.
The truth between two people always cuts two ways.
I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.
You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty?" ~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle