Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything." "Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies." "What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead!

I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.

Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

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.

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.