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

He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

It's just as I thought," she said. "I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?

I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.

One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.