Quotes from Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody's safe in a wizard's house," Calcifer said feelingly.

Howl conjured another wad of handkerchiefs and glowered at Sophie over them out of eyes that were now red-rimmed and watery. Then he stood up. 'I feel ill,' he announced. 'I'm going to bed, where I may die.

Sophie nearly said the smell reminded her of the bathroom after Howl had been in it, but she bit it back.

in which he sometimes spent his lunch hour when he could afford to pay one-eyed Jamal to watch his booth.

Charles liked poetry because the lines were so short. You could think your own thoughts in the spaces around the print.

Yedi fersahl?k çizme ve görünmezlik pelerini gibi ÅŸeylerin sahiden var olduÄŸu Ingary ülkesinde üç k?z kardeÅŸin en büyüÄŸü olarak doÄŸmak büyük talihsizliktir. Üçünüz de k?smetinizi aramaya ç?karsan?z, ilk olarak ve en kötü ÅŸekilde senin kaybedeceÄŸini herkes bilir.

Odeio os infelizes - disse Calcifer. - Eles pingam em mim. Prefiro os furiosos.

Kimse dedikodu yapmadan ÅŸapka alamaz

Though he did not seem to want to leave the hills, he was known to amuse himself by collecting young girls and sucking the souls from them.

She held one of her father's huge juicy pasties in one hand and munched it as she read. Crumbs kept falling on her book and she brushed them off with the pasty when they fell on the page she was reading.

And seeing clearly that his princesses would not be able to walk on air as we djinns do, he first ordered me to steal a certain moving castle belonging to a wizard in this land of Ingary in which to house his brides, and then he ordered me to commence stealing princesses.

Ä°lginç ÅŸeyler oluyordu, ama daima baÅŸkalar?na oluyordu.

Morta? - repetiu Sophie. Ela teve o tolo impulso de acrescentar: Mas estava viva a uma hora! No entanto, se conteve, porque a morte é assim: as pessoas estão vivas até que morrem.

Se a princípio não tiver sucesso, tente, tente, tente novamente.

Dead? said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.

if anyone wanted to turn her out now, they were going to have to use extreme and violent magic to do it.

I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

And the scarecrow went soaring away. Up and backward it went, rags fluttering, arms wheeling in protest, up and out, and on and on, until it was a soaring speck in the sky, then a vanishing point in the clouds, and then not to be seen at all.

It never ceases to amaze me," [Chrestomanci] said, "the way people always manage to worry about the wrong things. My dear sir, do you realise that you, your son, and four of your pupils, are all likely to be burnt unless we do something? And here are you worrying about timetables.

Oh, hello, Howl," Michael said helplessly.

Sophie began to feel that Wizard Howl and the Witch of the Waste should get together.

Howl preferred Miss Angorian.

Honestly, David, sometimes when they all start I don't know whether to scream or just walk out into the sunset. [...] - Why don't you do both? Walk into the sunset screaming?

In this world people are used to doing by magic what we do by science.