Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up!" "Oh, you flatter me, Brian," Chrestomanci said.

Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.

Beauty isn't made of sugar.

And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.

Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.