Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.

I’m going to bed, where I may die.

I feel ill,” [Howl] announced. “I’m going to bed, where I may die.

I’ll show you how,” Peter said. “Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

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.

Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he drinks too much and he always runs away. Since the...

After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell...

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

And, suddenly, as if her head cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they’re only in my own mind, she thought, they’re there and worth fighting for.

After 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...

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

Female Mercenary. This will be a companion on your Tour. She is usually tall, thin and wiry, silent, and neurotic. Sex scares her. This is because she either came from a nunnery or was raped...

If you like, you can all think of it as my gift to you. I never had much else to give. You can get on and play your own lives as you like, while I...

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...

But I brought it on myself by making a bargain some years ago, and I know I shall never be able to love anyone properly now.”The water running out of Howl’s eyes was definitely tears...

This 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...

And suddenly, as if her head had cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they’re only in my own mind, she thought, they’re there and worth fighting for. I...

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

There is very seldom any true secret.

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

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

Beauty isn’t made of sugar.

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities–besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

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

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!

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

And indeed if you think you’re a genius at something what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you’re no good, you’re not going to get anywhere.

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?

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

He held out his hand to Sophie, just like Mrs. Pentstemmon, but a little less royally. Sophie levered herself up, wondering if she was meant to kiss this hand or not. But since she felt...

The demon at legth fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sophie knew – or she thought not, until she distinctly heard the word “saucepan” in it several...

What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

City of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together. . . .There have been cities of EVIL Wizards in the past. You will occasionally come across...

After 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...

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci seemed not to know. He had heard of Hitler, though he asked Brian...

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Wizard 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.

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

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

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a...

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He turned around to say it. But the folds had already rippled flat and nothing was the...

Happiness 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.

Are you off to the iceberg today?” Sophie retorted.

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

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...

f you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a...