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Diana Wynne Jones

  • chandanahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    Sophie listened and felt sad. Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.
  • chandanahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    “If he is, you’ll never pin him down,” Michael answered. “He hates being pinned down to anything.”
  • chandanahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    “Howl’s very fickle,” said Calcifer. “He’s only interested until the girl falls in love with him. Then he can’t be bothered with her.”
  • chandanahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    On the other hand, it is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
  • chandanahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    “Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?”
  • chandanahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    Then he stood up. “I feel ill,” he announced. “I’m going to bed, where I may die.” He tottered piteously to the stairs. “Bury me beside Mrs. Pentstemmon,” he croaked as he went up them to bed
  • chandanahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    Howl coughed piteously. “I shall go in disguise, probably as another corpse,” he said, trailing back toward the stairs
  • chandanahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    I wondered whether to ask her if she would mind everywhere being covered with green slime when Howl’s hair went wrong; or if she minded coping with a man who had head colds like a drama queen; or being twisted round Howl’s little finger; or would it worry her that the man was a terrible coward; or always falling in love with other women;
  • Zaahrahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    She cackled again as she walked on. Perhaps she was a little mad, but then old women often were.

    The fact that she's accepted she's an old woman-

  • Zaahrahar citeretfor 2 år siden
    “Did you say something?” Howl croaked.

    “No, but I was thinking that people who run away from everything deserve every cold they get,” Sophie said.
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