Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.

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.

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

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 read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

A heart's a heavy burden.

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

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.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable, ' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

May the sacredness of Christmas gladden your heart.

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

I fear very much for our kids, for low income people and for seniors.

My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where I asked if she could take me to the orphanage because I would like to adopt a little baby.

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

Fans are the best. I'd do whatever for them.