Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

Howl has been very kind to me." And this was true, Sophie realized. Howl showed his kindness rather strangely, but, considering all Sophie did to annoy him, he had been very good to her indeed. "Do listen. He's not wicked at all!" There was a bit of a fizz from the grate at this, where Calcifer was watching with some interest. " He isn't!" Sophie said, to Calcifer as much as to Fanny.

Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

I seem to have excalibured this knife.

I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice.