Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.

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

Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.

A fickle heart is the only constant in this world