You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty?" ~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle

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.

I will carry you kicking and screaming like a child then spank you. We can do this my way or yours.

There's something cool about being a stealth classic.

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

Never take your eyes off your opponent, even when you bow.

[Sandy] Kress says [Betsy] DeVos's record on school choice in Michigan sealed the deal.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.