House of Many Ways Quotes

“All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place.
Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said.
Oh shut up!" Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“...don't spoil my learning process!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“As always, in times of trouble, she knew what she wanted to do. “I’m going to read a book,” she said.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“By this time, half the people in High Norland were gathered in Royal Square to stare at the castle. They all watched with disbelief as the castle rose slightly into the air and glided toward the road that led southward. It was hardly more than an alley, really. "It'll never fit!" people said. But the castle somehow squeezed itself narrow enough to drift away along it and out of sight. The citizens of High Norland gave it a cheer as it went.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“She stood with her nose up, sniffing delightedly. It was the delicious mildewy fragrance of old books. Hundreds of them, she saw, looking round the room. Books were lined up on shelves on all four walls, stacked on the floor, and piled on the desk, old books in leather covers mostly, although some of the ones on the floor had newer looking colored jackets.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“As she turned left to the gateway, it occurred to her that swimming was only one of a very large number of things she had no idea what to do. Peter had been right to object to her ignorance. "It's not that I'm lazy," she explained to Waif as they arrived in what seemed to be stables, "or stupid. I've just not bothered to look round the edges of Mother's way of doing things, you see.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“I can't wear thethe! I want my thtwipey oneth!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“I was meaning to be kind to you this evening, but you make it very difficult.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“But I want to read a book!" Charmain protested.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“My mother says that laundry breeds if you don’t wash it.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“My mother brought me up to be respectable,” she said. “She never let me near the scullery, or the kitchen either.”
“I don’t believe this!” Peter said. “Why is it respectable not to know how to do things? Is it respectable to light a fire with a bar of soap?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“The most she knew about gardens was the Bakers’ own backyard, which contained one large mulberry tree and a rosebush, plus the window boxes where her mother grew runner beans. She knew there was earth under the plants and that the earth contained worms. She shuddered.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“I may be clever, she thought, quite sadly, but I’m not in the least kind or sympathetic.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“In the study, The Book of Palimpsest was, for some reason, now open at "A Spell to Find Yourself a Handsome Prince." Charmain shook her head and closed the book. "Who needs a prince?" she said.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“It was closely printed in long paragraphs that mostly seemed to begin, “If we extrapolate from our findings in my earlier work, we find ourselves ready to approach an extension of the paratypical phenomenology…” No, Charmain thought. I don’t think we are ready.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“All I wanted to do was sit down and read a book, she thought, and I come home to a flood!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“Charmain disliked blood almost as much as she disliked earthworms.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“She hadn’t even said that she loved books more than anything else in the world, although this was perfectly true.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“Er... did you hear us, dear?" Mrs. Baker said anxiously.
"No," Charmain said with her mouth full. "What?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“She held one of her father’s huge juicy pasties in one hand and munched it as she read. Crumbs kept falling on her book and she brushed them off with the pasty when they fell on the page she was reading.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“Чари, щоб ти знала, втікають, якщо за ними нема кому доглянути.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways