Quotes - Eliza (thelizziebug) Showing 1-30 of 96

#1

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: happily-ever-after, love

1782 likes

#2

“If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: calcifer

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#3

“Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk."
"Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: calcifer, drunk, howl, sober

619 likes

#4

“I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

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#5

“That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: opening-lines

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#6

“She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: the-witch-of-the-waste

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#7

“My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: humor, humour, lying, salvation

366 likes

#8

“Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

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#9

“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.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: humor, wales, welsh

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#10

“A fickle heart is the only constant in this world”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: howls-moving-castle

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#11

“Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: sophie-life

215 likes

#12

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

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#13

“Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed Life

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#14

“And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed Life

tags: humour

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#15

“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: goodness, heart, life, living

1381 likes

#16

“He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: crises

1218 likes

#17

“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: insanity, sanity

1070 likes

#18

“I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

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#19

“I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

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#20

“She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said.
"Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats."
Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: cats, humor

125 likes

#21

“Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: kill, killing

117 likes

#22

“I already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people?”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: kill

56 likes

#23

“People are wrong when they say things like, “I didn’t have time to think.” If you’re really worried, or really miserable, those feelings come welling up around the edges of the other things you’re doing, so that you are in the feelings even when you’re working hard at something else.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Conrad's Fate

tags: anxiety, chrestomanci, feelings

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#24

“I will miss the horses," said Beauty a little wistfully.
"Perhaps you will become fond of the goat," said Jeweltongue. "Or even the chickens."
"Does one ever grow fond of chickens?" said Beauty dubiously. "Perhaps the goat.”
― Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter

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#25

“Even the homeliest girl secretly dreams that a man might fall in love with her inner spirit.”
― Robin Hobb, Dragon Keeper

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#26

“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

tags: family, home

1334 likes

#27

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

tags: destiny, path, questioning

1109 likes

#28

“Wake me when whatever terrible thing is about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet.”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

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#29

“Time and death sleep side by side.”
― Garth Nix, Abhorsen

tags: death, time