Diana Wynne Jones Quotes: 14

• I think we ought to live happily ever after.

  Howl's Moving Castle

• You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.

  Howl's Moving Castle

• 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.

  Howl's Moving Castle

• 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.

  Castle in the Air

• I feel ill,"[Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

  Howl's Moving Castle

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

  Fire and Hemlock

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

  Castle in the Air

• Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

  Castle in the Air

• My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

  Howl's Moving Castle

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

  Howl's Moving Castle

• 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!

  Howl's Moving Castle

• Learn to drive?" "Never,"said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.

  Archer's Goon

• 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 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.

• The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

  Fire and Hemlock