HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE SENTENCE STARTERS : quotes taken from the 1986 novel ‘howl’s moving castle’ by diana wynne jones.
“i think we ought to live happily ever after.”
“i hope your bacon burns.”
“you must admit i have a right to live in a pigsty if i want.”
“yes, you are nosy. you’re dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean.”
“i’m going up to my room now, where i may die.”
“if i give you a hint and tell you it’s a hint it will be information.”
“i’m dying of boredom. — or maybe just dying.”
“go to bed, you fool. you’re drunk.”
“i assure you, my friends, i am cone sold stober.”
“typical! i break my neck trying to get here, and i find you peacefully tidying up!”
“you have no right to walk into people’s castles and take their guitars.”
“it is quite a risk to spank a witch/wizard for getting hysterical about their hair.”
“a heart’s a heavy burden.”
“my shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.”
“why did you pretend to run away?”
“i’m a coward. only way i can do something this frightening is to tell myself i’m not doing it.”
“no, you hit your head on the floor.”
“he’s fickle, careless, selfish and hysterical. half the time i think he doesn’t care what happens to anyone as long as he’s alright.”
“is that all you can do in the face of tragedy?”
“is that all you can do in the face of tragedy? make toast!”
“they said 'over my dead body!’ so i took them at their word.”
“things are going round and round in my head — or maybe my head is going round and round in things.”
“a fickle heart is the only constant in this world.”
“help me, someone! i’m dying from neglect up here.”
“interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.”
“i must apologize for trying to bite you so often.”
“she was remorseless, but she lacked method.”
“you are a terror, aren’t you?”
“now i’ve got something i want to protect. it’s you.”
“tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.”
“some of your are pretending to notice me at last.”
“doors are very powerful things. things are different on either side of them.”
“apply your fiendish mind to the matter. or even think, if you know how.”
