Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?

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.

But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

When have you looked?" said Sophie. "Oh, how your rears flap and your long nose twitches", Howl croaked.

Beauty isn't made of sugar.