Howl's Moving Castle Quotes

#1. You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty?"

~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle

Diana Wynne Jones

#2. Think we ought to live happily ever after. - Howl in Howl's Moving Castle

Heidi Cullinan

#3. I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'

Nicolas Cage

#4. Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.

Stephen Hunter

#5. With the complete lack of shame of the extremely deaf and the complete lack of grammar of the extremely inbred.

Lauren Willig

#6. We make a picture," he said, "of how we want the world to be, and most of the time it isn't like that. Holding on to that image causes the suffering. Not the world, not the truth. Our disappointment is what makes us hurt.

M.L.N. Hanover

#7. I feel ill," he announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die." He tottered piteously to the stairs. "Bury me beside Mrs. Pentstemmon," he croaked as he went up then to bed.

Diana Wynne Jones

#8. 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?

Diana Wynne Jones

#9. He's got one leg hooked up over Lindsay's shoulder, one braced against the dashboard. He's still got his socks on, red with a little Christmas tree on each ankle. Well sexy.

Richard Rider

#10. That's a great expression of yours, isn't it?" said Tom sharply. "What is?" "All this 'old sport' business. Where'd you pick that up?

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. 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.

Diana Wynne Jones

#12. His grin widens, and leaning down, he undoes the tie.

E.L. James

#13. She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

Diana Wynne Jones

#14. The breeze through the open window scented the interior of the car with leaves and water, growing things and secret things.

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. Howl's voice was presently heard shouting weakly, Help me, someone! I'm dying from neglect up here!

Diana Wynne Jones

#16. You have no right to make jigsaws of people.

Diana Wynne Jones

#17. If you're thinking of calling on that Mrs. Pentstemmon, you can save yourself the trouble. The old biddy's dead."
"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.

Diana Wynne Jones

#18. I wish I had gaydar. I wish it were something you could pick up in a store.

Sara Farizan

#19. It sounded so weird when people called shoyu "soy sauce." It made it sound like Tabasco or something instead of the clean and perfect thing that it was.

Cynthia Kadohata

#20. People are kind of upset with British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward. Over the weekend, he was out on his yacht. And when President Obama found out that Tony Hayward was on his yacht, he was so angry, he missed a putt.

David Letterman

#21. Orr was one of the homeliest freaks Yossarian had ever encountered, and one of the most attractive.

Joseph Heller

#22. By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast!

Diana Wynne Jones