Candice

“Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’
Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“Where's school?" he shrieked at her. "I'm missing cricket practice!" For half an hour after that the hospital was in total confusion, while everyone tried to catch a five-foot corpse clothed mostly in a flying sheet, which raced up and down the corridors shrieking that it was missing cricket practice.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, The Lives of Christopher Chant

“Little girls who hang around with vampires need to get used to dead things...In fact, little girls who hang around with vampires already are with dead things.”
― Vivian Vande Velde