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“Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

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

“Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours."
"He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything."
"Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies."
"What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History