He lied about that. He didn’t want to annoy you. He’s a slitherer-outer, if you know what I mean, Your Majesty.

A place where someone still thinks about you is a place you can call home.

If you want to know who you are, you have to look at your real self and acknowledge what you see.

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

The ticket to the future is always open.

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

Don’t underestimate me! I don’t quit and I don’t run.

“You’ll be the death of me! You’re as heartless as Howl!” Calcifer choked.

I care more about others than I do myself, and I won’t let anyone hurt them.

Sophie listened and felt sad. Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

If comrades that you trust gather around you, hope can take physical form and become visible. That’s what I believe.

I’m the best and cleanest witch in Ingary.

It is only through the eyes of others that our lives have any meaning.

But I discovered that people like me — they do, you know, if you like them — and then it was all right.

Time doesn’t heal anything, it just teaches us how to live with pain.

I could cut a star of paper and drop it.