My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me. - Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

"So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?""Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!"

"I think we ought to live happily ever after."

"I feel ill,"[Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die."

"Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?"she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet."I'm dying of boredom,"Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying."

"You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want."