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Howl’s Moving Castle

Diana Wynne Jones

Top 10 Best Quotes

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”

“I hope your bacon burns.”

“You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.”

“I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.”

“Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.”

“I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.”

“If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.”

“Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. "I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.”

“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.”

“A heart's a heavy burden.”

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Book Keywords:

humor, pigsty, mess, howl, sophie-hatter, love, lazy, howl-pendragon, insuferable, happily-ever-after, marriage, calcifer, colds, headcolds, drunk, sober

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