She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

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

What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.

You have no right to make jigsaws of people.

But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.

Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.

Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before." Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170