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  1. Diana Wynne Jones _ Howl's Moving Castle

    Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.
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  2. Diana Wynne Jones _ House of Many Ways

    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.Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said.Oh shut up!" Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up?
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  3. Diana Wynne Jones _ Howl's Moving Castle

    You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
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  4. Diana Wynne Jones _ Howl's Moving Castle

    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?
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  5. Diana Wynne Jones _ Howl's Moving Castle

    Look at this!" he shouted "look at it! what has that one-woman force of chaos done to these spells?"Sophie and Michael whirled round and looked at Howl. His hair was wet, but, apart from that, neither of them could see that it looked any different. "If you mean me-" Sophie began."I do mean you! Look!" Howl shrieked. He sat down with a thump on the three-legged stool and jabbed at his wet head with his fingers. "Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!"Michael and Sophie bent nervously over Howl's head. it seemed the usual flaxen color right down to the roots. The only difference might have been a slight, very slight, trace of red. Sophie found that agreeable. It reminded her a little of the color her own hair should have been."I think it's nice," she said."Nice!" screamed Howl. "You would! You did it on purpose. You couldn't rest until you made me miserable too. Look at it! It's ginger! I shall have to hide until it's grown out!" He spread his arms out passionately. "Dispair!" he yelled. "Anguish! Horror!
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  6. Diana Wynne Jones _ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

    Horses are of a breed unique to Fantasyland. They are capable of galloping full-tilt all day without a rest. Sometimes they do not require food or water. They never cast shoes, go lame or put their hooves down holes, except when the Management deems it necessary, as when the forces of the Dark Lord are only half an hour behind. They never otherwise stumble. Nor do they ever make life difficult for Tourists by biting or kicking their riders or one another. They never resist being mounted or blow out so that their girths slip, or do any of the other things that make horses so chancy in this world. For instance, they never shy and seldom whinny or demand sugar at inopportune moments. But for some reason you cannot hold a conversation while riding them. If you want to say anything to another Tourist {or vice versa}, both of you will have to rein to a stop and stand staring out over a valley while you talk. Apart from this inexplicable quirk, horses can be used just like bicycles, and usually are. Much research into how these exemplary animals come to exist has resulted in the following: no mare ever comes into season on the Tour and no stallion ever shows an interest in a mare; and few horses are described as geldings. It therefore seems probable that they breed by pollination. This theory seems to account for everything, since it is clear that the creatures do behave more like vegetables than mammals. Nomads appears to have a monopoly on horse-breeding. They alone possess the secret of how to pollinate them.
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  7. Diana Wynne Jones _ Howl's Moving Castle

    Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?
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  8. Diana Wynne Jones _ Archer's Goon

    Learn to drive?""Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.
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  9. Diana Wynne Jones _ House of Many Ways

    All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle {or was his name Howl?} to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it.
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  10. Diana Wynne Jones _ Howl's Moving Castle

    Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
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  11. Diana Wynne Jones _ Howl's Moving Castle

    It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.
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  12. Diana Wynne Jones _ Howl's Moving Castle

    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 the things I need for my transport spells if you tidy them up.'So there was probably a bundle of souls or a box of chewed hearts somewhere out here, Sophie thought. She felt really thwarted. 'Tidying up is what I'm for!' she shouted at Howl. 'Then you must think of a new meaning for your life,' Howl said.
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