Jako młoda dziewczyna Sophie spaliłaby się ze wstydu za swoje zachowanie. Jako staruszka nie przejmowała się niczym, co zrobiła czy powiedziała. Co za ulga.

Nikt nie jest bezpieczny w domu czarnoksiężnika.

- Umieram z nudów - odparł żałośnie Hauru. - Albo po prostu umieram.

Kiedy dorośniesz i zostaniesz pisarką, będzie ci się zdawało, że wymyślasz książki, ale one wszystkie gdzieś tam będą prawdziwe.

- Nie żyje? - powtórzyła Sophie. Zamierzała zawołać niemądrze: Ale przecież żyła jeszcze godzinę temu! Powstrzymała się jednak, bo śmierć już taka jest: ludzie żyją, dopóki nie umrą.
- Tak, nie żyje - potwierdziła Wiedźma. - Nie chciała mi powiedzieć, gdzie jest ktoś, kogo szukam. Oświadczyła: "Po moim trupie!" - więc wzięłam ją za słowo.

Pamiętaj, że jest w mej mocy niewidzialne widzieć dziwy, dlatego nie śpię po nocy i wciąż jestem nieszczęśliwy.

Nie każdy może być Szalonym Kapelusznikiem.

Następny wystrojony, pachnący posłaniec przybył z listem i niemiłosiernie długą przemową, w której wyrażał nadzieję, że Hauru zechce poświęcić nieco cennego czasu, niewątpliwie przeznaczonego na ważniejsze rzeczy, żeby pochylić swój potężny intelekt nad drobnym kłopotem, jakiego doświadczył Jego Królewska Mość - a mianowicie, jak wojsko ma przeprawić ciężkie wozy przez bagna i bezdroża. Hauru udzielił niezwykle uprzejmej i obszernej odpowiedzi. Powiedział: "nie".

I nagle zrozumiał powód tego zdziwienia. To dlatego, że ktoś tak pospolity, tak zwyczajnie głupi, jak inkwizytor Littleton miał władzę, żeby go spalić. I to było złe.

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk."
"Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him. "What a lie that was!" Howl remarked as he walked into the wall. "My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me." He walked into the wall several times more, in several different places, before he discovered his bedroom door and crashed his way through it. Sophie could hear him falling about, saying that his bed was dodging.

I’m a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell my self I’m not doing it!

Pendragon to piękne nazwisko, znacznie lepsze niż Jenkins.

She stared at the King. The King stared back. It was a disaster.

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!"
Michael and Sophie bent nervously over Howl's head. it seemed the usual flaxen color right down to the roots. The only difference might have been a slight, very slight, trace of red. Sophie found that agreeable. It reminded her a little of the color her own hair should have been.
"I think it's nice," she said.
"Nice!" screamed Howl. "You would! You did it on purpose. You couldn't rest until you made me miserable too. Look at it! It's ginger! I shall have to hide until it's grown out!" He spread his arms out passionately. "Dispair!" he yelled. "Anguish! Horror!".

More about Howl? Sophie thought desperately. I have to blacken his name! Her mind was such a blank that for a second it actually seemed to her that Howl had no faults at all. How stupid! "Well, he's fickle, careless, selfish, and hysterical," she said. "Half the time I think he doesn't care what happens to anyone as long as he's alright--but then I find out how awfully kind he's been to someone. Then I think he's kind just when it suits him--only then I find out he undercharges poor people. I don't know, Your Majesty. He's a mess".

Jak zwykle w trudnych chwilach wiedziała, co chce zrobić.
- Zamierzam poczytać - oznajmiła.

Nie przywykłeś do trudów, co? - zauważył żołnierz. - Eleganckie buty, porządne ubranie, chociaż widać, że ostatnio trochę się podniszczyło. Twoja mowa i opalenizna świadczą, że pochodzisz z samego południa Ingarii, co?

Jestem przywiązany kontraktem do tego kominka.

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or later— probably sooner— I’d look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I’d be disappointed in you if I didn’t see you.

You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find the things I need for my transport spells if you tidy them up."
So there was probably a bundle of souls or a box of chewed hearts somewhere out here, Sophie thought. She felt really thwarted. "Tidying up is what I’m here for!" she shouted at Howl.
"Then you must think of a new meaning for your life," Howl said.

Howl backed into the door to shut it and leaned there in a tragic attitude. "Look at you all!" he said. "Ruin stares me in the face. I slave all day for you. And not one of you, even Calcifer, can spare time to say hello!"
Calcifer said, "I never do say hello."
"Is something wrong?" asked Sophie.
"That's better," Howl said. "Some of you are pretending to notice me at last. Yes, something is wrong".

I’m not being nosy!" Sophie protested. "That room—!"
"Yes, you are nosy," said Howl. "You’re a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You’re victimizing us all".

In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.

Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, "Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!".

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".

If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.

I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl.
"And you'll exploit me," Sophie said.
"And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me".

- Może - powiedział Abdullah - powinieneś bardziej uważać, kogo pozwalasz gryźć swojemu psu.
- O nie! - zaprotestował Jamal. - Wierzę w wolną wolę. Jeśli mój pies chce nienawidzić całej rasy ludzkiej oprócz mnie, daję mu wolny wybór.