Diana Wynne Jones

If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me…

— Diana Wynne Jones

Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Polly finished her huge narrative during the summer term. The day after she had finished it, she went round with the oddest…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.”

— Diana Wynne Jones

You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty?" ~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle

— Diana Wynne Jones

“All power corrupts, but we need electricity.”

— Diana Wynne Jones

Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“...and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.”

— Diana Wynne Jones

You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be…

— Diana Wynne Jones

Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love,…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“I got myself to the middle and sort of groped along there with one hand out in front. And something groped back…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Really, Wizard Derk, this place is like a pigsty!" she said. Derk settled more comfortably among the pigs. "It is a pigsty,"…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I've got a hangover!" "No, you hit your head on the floor," Sophie said. Howl rose up on his hands and knees…

— Diana Wynne Jones

A fickle heart is the only constant in this world

— Diana Wynne Jones

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

— Diana Wynne Jones

Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream…

— Diana Wynne Jones

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have…

— Diana Wynne Jones

Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and…

— Diana Wynne Jones

Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I seem to have excalibured this knife.

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He turned around to…

— Diana Wynne Jones

Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

— Diana Wynne Jones

So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.

— Diana Wynne Jones