One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person’s himself.
It’s a lucky child that knows that they’re a genius, unaimed and all that.
I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.
Busy old fool, unruly Sophie.
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.
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people’s lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.
Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.
It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.
A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.
I’ve seen golems. They don’t behave like a real person.
Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.
She was remorseless, but she lacked method.
I can’t abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
If I give you a hint and tell you it’s a hint, it will be information.
Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.
Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest.
There is very seldom any true secret.
The truth between two people always cuts two ways.