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- Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to…
- Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they…
- You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find…
- This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As…
- 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…
- I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would…
- He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have…
- Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
- I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.
- Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place.…
- I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who…
- Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In the latter case it is tactful to…
- Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!
- Mr. Crossley suddenly wondered why he was why he was worrying about the note. It was only a joke, after all. He cleared his throat.…
- Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or…
- Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward…
- 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…
- I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.
- I've got a hangover!" "No, you hit your head on the floor," Sophie said. Howl rose up on his hands and knees with a scramble.…
- Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all…
- Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!
- I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why…
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