What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.

It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.

Yes. I was looking for Lettie. They were both very kind to me,” Percival said, “Even though they’d never seen me before. And Wizard Howl kept visiting to court Lettie. Lettie didn’t want him, and she asked me to bite him to get rid of him, until Howl suddenly began asking her about you and—“ “what?” he said, “ I know someone called sophie who looks a little like you.. And Lettie said, that’s my sister,’ without thinking,” Percival said. “ And she got terribly worried then, particularly as Howl went on asking about her sister.

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.