To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
Learn to drive?””Never,” said Quentin. “My mission in life is to be a passenger.
You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.
Really, 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.
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.
I feel ill,” [Howl] announced. “I’m going to bed, where I may die.
I can’t abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
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 I’m not doing it!
Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?
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.
The truth between two people always cuts two ways.
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.
But I discovered that people like me — they do, you know, if you like them — and then it was all right.
…and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.
Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. “Why I am I holding a dog full of angels?
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 same anymore….
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?
Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.
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.
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.
I’ll show you how,” Peter said. “Stop hiding behind your ignorance.
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 up them on his face. The whole castle shook.
In a way it was worth it, she thought, except that it was such a total waste.
Take it from me, Fate doesn’t care most of the time.
Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.
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 mustn’t give in.
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.
Oh! Polly thought. Why aren’t all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!
The demon at length 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 times…
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!
I hate dialect. It gets in the way. If there is a need for dialect, you can render it quite easily by reproducing the rythm of that form of speech. Then you don’t need to bother with silly spellings
But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities–besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them
Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
I mean one of the things about being alone is that you’ve no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let’s face it, we don’t often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.