Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

Learn to drive?Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.

Really, these wizards! Youd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it? she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet.Im dying of boredom, Howl said pathetically. Or maybe just dying.

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

I feel ill, [Howl] announced. Im going to bed, where I may die.

I cant abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?Not likely! Im a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself Im not doing it!

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

Wizard Howl, said Wizard Suliman. I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldnt dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.

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 later— probably sooner— I’d look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I’d be disappointed in you if I didn’t see you.” “Are you off to the iceberg today?” Sophie retorted.

This book will prove the following ten facts:1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there.2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch.3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity.4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight.5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast.6. An Englishmans home is his castle.7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male.8. One black eye deserves another.9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm.10. It pays to increase your word power.

The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

Happiness isnt a thing. You cant go out and get it like a cup of tea. Its the way you feel about things.

Tell me of this Wizard Howl of yours. Sophies teeth chattered but she said proudly, Hes the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If hed only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And hes sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you cant pin him down to anything.

This is the mythosphere. Its made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As you can see, its constantly growing and moving as people invent new tales to tell or find new things to believe. The older strands move out to become these spirals, where things tend to become quite crude and dangerous. Theyve hardened off, you see.