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“What have you done today to deserve your eyes?”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Sometimes it takes a tragedy like this to make a weak person strong.”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“I think all of us feel empty most of the time and we merely pretend to fill the vacuum with laughter, crying, apologies - anything to make us feel human.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

“Why didn't it happen between us? Why did I fail? Why did you come close enough...and not closer?”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“Some time I’d like to show you a chart of the human anatomy that I have in the office. It shows what our insides are like, and maybe you can show me where the beautiful soul is located on the chart.”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“After all, what exactly is a family, if not a brotherhood and sisterhood afflicted with the same terminal disease?”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

“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.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“I don’t like meetings. The only meetings I like are between two people.”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“You—white-blooded spinster! You so right people, pious pompous mumblers, preachers and preacher’s daughter, all muffled up in a lot of worn-out magic! And I was supposed to minister to your neurosis, give you tablets for sleeping and tonics to give you the strength to go on mumbling your worn-out mumbo-jumbo!”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy?” Howl asked. “Make toast!?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“That’s your mistake. You think you’re stuffed with rose leaves? Turn around and look at it, it may do you good!... Now listen here to the anatomy lecture! This upper story’s the brain, which is hungry for something called truth and doesn’t get much but keeps on feeling hungry! This middle’s the belly which is hungry for food. This part down here is the sex which is hungry for love because it is sometimes lonesome. I’ve fed all three, as much of all three as I could, or as much as I wanted.—You’ve fed none—nothing. Well—maybe your belly a little—watery subsistence—but love or truth, nothing but—nothing but hand-me-down notions!—attitudes—poses! Now you can go.”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“This future you live in . . . would I like it?” “Honestly, it’s probably not that different from the world you know. Some people are happy. Some people are angry. There are wars. I don’t know if time makes much of a difference. The world changes, but people act the way people always do.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“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.”
“Are you off to the iceberg today?” Sophie retorted.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“And as I’m left standing there with the squeezed out remains of that dead cat, I wonder to myself, “Does it matter? Does any of this really matter?”
The answer’s no.
The answer’s always been no.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

“I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.”
“No! No!” the star crackled desperately. “That’s wrong! I’m supposed to die!”
“But I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it gently.
“No!” cried the star. “I’d rather die!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“The girl who said 'no' — she doesn't exist anymore, she died last summer — suffocated in smoke from something on fire inside her.”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“I will answer that question by asking you one.—Have you ever seen, or looked at, a picture of a Gothic cathedral?... How everything reaches up, how everything seems to be straining for something out of the reach of stone—or human—fingers?—The immense stained windows, the great arched doors that are five or six times the height of the tallest man—the vaulted ceiling and all the delicate spires—all reaching up to something beyond attainment! To me—well, that is the secret, the principle back of existence—the everlasting struggle and aspiration for more than our human limits have placed in our reach.—Who was it that said that—oh, so beautiful a thing!—“All of us are in the gutter”—but some of us are looking at the stars!”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“The night at the Casino—I wouldn’t have made love to you. Even if you had consented to go upstairs. I couldn’t have made love to you. Yes, yes! Isn’t that funny? I’m more afraid of your soul than you’re afraid of my body. You’d have been as safe as the angel of the fountain—because I wouldn’t feel decent enough—to touch you.…”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“It may strike you as unpleasant. But it does have a good deal to do with— connubial felicity, as you’d call it. There are some women that just give in to a man as a sort of obligation imposed on them by the—cruelty of nature! And there you are.”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“It was night, and even if any good Samaritan saw the smoke, it wasn't like they would come running. This was America. No one was lost in America. If they saw the smoke, they would say, "Looks like someone's having a fire!" and then go have a burger.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“At 1 A.M. a parking garage feels like a crime scene in waiting.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“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.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Thanks for everything, Pennsylvania, but fuck you eternally.”
― Drew Magary, The Hike

“Oh, I’m not mad, I’m just mystified and amazed as I always am by unprovoked malice in people.”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“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.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“You have no right to make jigsaws of people.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle