“Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others".”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Not likely!” Howl yelled. “I’m a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell my self I’m not doing it!”
― Howl's Moving Castle
― Howl's Moving Castle
“Perhaps all humans are lonely. At least potentially.”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
“Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil’s foot. Teach me to hear the mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy’s stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. Decide what this is about Write a second verse yourself”
― Howl's Moving Castle
― Howl's Moving Castle
“Being beautiful, was that for men?'
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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