Howl's Moving Castle
Quotes from the Book
Can't you treat yourself with a bit more consideration?' 'Why should I?' Mordion said, hugging the duvet round himself. 'Because you're a person, of course!' Ann snapped at him. 'One person ought to treat another person properly even if the person's himself!
Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
And suddenly, as if her head had cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they’re only in my own mind, she thought, they’re there and worth fighting for. I mustn’t give in.
All I did was ask you for a role-playing game. You never warned me I’d be pitched into it for real! And I asked you for hobbits on a grail quest, and not one hobbit have I seen!
This wood,” Yam told him, “is like human memory. It does not need to take events in their correct order. Do you wish to go to an earlier time and start from there?” “Would I understand more if I did?” Hume asked. “You might,” said Yam. “Both of us might.” “Then it’s worth a try,” Hume agreed. They went together down the left-hand fork.
Please, your story, or I shall offend the dignitaries of my kingdom by yawning at holy things.
He is real, in his own way," Ann pointed out. "After all, what's real? How do you know I'm real, or if you are?
... I asked you for Hobbits on a grail quest, and not one Hobbit have I seen!
Ann left him there, kneeling among the violets looking out into the fog as if that glimpse of the castle had somehow broken his heart.
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Strange things are happening at Hexwood Farm, not far from London.
On another world entirely, a harassed Sector Controller gets a letter from a maintenance team apparently trapped in Hexwood. A small boy called Hume encounters a robot and a dragon there. Ann Stavely, lying in bed with a virus in her nearby home, watches person after person disappear into the old farmhouse and not come out again.
When she feels better, Ann decides to investigate. She goes into the wood, where she meets a tormented sorcerer called Mordion who seems to have arisen from a sleep lasting centuries. Yet Ann knows she has seen him enter the farmhouse that morning. Nothing seems to happen in the right order. Nothing quite makes sense. And things keep getting stranger and stranger until, long before the end, the strangeness has spread from Earth right out to the center of the galaxy.
Book details
- First published
- 1993
- Author
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Goodreads rating
- 4.01 (5k ratings)
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