Emily Cook

“He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“You have an instinct, Sophie, that’s how,” said Howl. “Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of an ocean, sooner or later—probably sooner—I’d look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I’d be disappointed in you if I didn’t see you.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle: A Spellbinding Fantasy Adventure of Magic, Curses, and a Moving Castle

“Good. Sophie felt like a fight. “You could have noticed for yourself,” she said, glaring back, daring Howl to do his worst with green slime.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle: A Spellbinding Fantasy Adventure of Magic, Curses, and a Moving Castle

“More about Howl? Sophie thought desperately. I have to blacken his name! Her mind was such a blank that for a second it actually seemed to her that Howl had no faults at all. How stupid! “Well, he’s fickle, careless, selfish, and hysterical,” she said. “Half the time I think he doesn’t care what happens to anyone as long as he’s all right—but then I find out how awfully kind he’s been to someone. Then I think he’s kind just when it suits him—only then I find out he undercharges poor people. I don’t know, Your Majesty. He’s a mess.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle: A Spellbinding Fantasy Adventure of Magic, Curses, and a Moving Castle