Frases de Diana Wynne Jones página 3

“Por eso me gustan las arañas. Si al principio no lo consiguen, lo vuelven a intentar. Yo lo intento —dijo con gran pesar—. Pero la culpa es mía, porque hice un trato hace años y ahora jamás seré capaz de amar a nadie de verdad.”

Howl's Moving Castle

“Pero quería hacer algo, no estaba segura de qué, algo que fuera un poco mas interesante que adornar sombreros.”

Howl's Moving Castle

“Quizá —dijo— deberías estar más pendiente de a quién muerde tu perro.
—¡Yo no! —dijo Jamal—. Soy un creyente del libre albedrío. Si mi perro elige odiar
a toda la raza humana menos a mí, es libre de hacerlo.”

Howl's Moving Castle

Diana Wynne Jones libro Castle in the Air

Castle in the Air

“¡Por qué será que siempre que voy a Gales vuelvo con un resfriado! —gimió Howl, y se conjuró un montón de pañuelos a la vez.”

“¡Estoy aquí para limpiar! -le gritó Sophie.
-Entonces vaya encontrándole otro sentido a su vida. -dijo Howl.”

“Me encuentro mal, como si tuviera un gran peso en el pecho.
- Un corazón es una pesada carga.”

Howl's Moving Castle

“Howl se compra ropa carísima, porque dice que nadie querría contratar a un mago con pinta de no ser capaz de ganar dinero con su oficio.”

“Pero ahora se daba cuenta de que había cosas que solo era capaz de hacer cuando ya no le quedaba ninguna excusa.”

Howl's Moving Castle

“Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.”

Diana Wynne Jones: Frases en inglés

“Not likely!” Howl yelled. “I’m a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell my self I’m not doing it!”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Fuente: Howl's Moving Castle

“Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Fuente: Howl's Moving Castle

“I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro Castle in the Air

Fuente: Castle in the Air

“And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.”

Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

Fuente: House of Many Ways

“It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Fuente: Howl's Moving Castle

“Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before."
Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170”

Diana Wynne Jones libro Dark Lord of Derkholm

Fuente: Dark Lord of Derkholm

“But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Fuente: Howl's Moving Castle

“SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro Enchanted Glass

Fuente: Enchanted Glass

“Calcifer," Sophie said, "I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you?" "It would if anyone else broke it," Calcifer said hoarsely. "That's why I asked you to do it.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro The Tough Guide To Fantasyland

Fuente: The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

“Beauty isn't made of sugar.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Fuente: Howl's Moving Castle

“The truth between two people always cuts two ways.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro The Game

Fuente: The Game

“I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro Fire and Hemlock

Fuente: Fire and Hemlock

“I feel ill,” he announced. “I’m going to bed, where I may die.” He tottered piteously to the stairs. “Bury me beside Mrs. Pentstemmon,” he croaked as he went up then to bed.”

Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

Fuente: House of Many Ways

“Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Fuente: Howl's Moving Castle

“… don't spoil my learning process!”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Fuente: Howl's Moving Castle

“There is very seldom any true secret.”

Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

Fuente: House of Many Ways

“I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro Deep Secret

Fuente: Deep Secret

“But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them”

Diana Wynne Jones libro Fire and Hemlock

Fuente: Fire and Hemlock

“But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?”

Diana Wynne Jones libro Fire and Hemlock

Fuente: Fire and Hemlock

“When have you looked?" said Sophie.

"Oh, how your rears flap and your long nose twitches", Howl croaked.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro Enchanted Glass

Fuente: Enchanted Glass

“She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Fuente: Howl's Moving Castle

“Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.”

Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways

Fuente: House of Many Ways

“Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.”

Fuente: The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Vol. 1

“Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro Fire and Hemlock

Fuente: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 311.

“And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro Hexwood

Fuente: Hexwood

“He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.”

Diana Wynne Jones Charmed Life

Fuente: Charmed Life

“On the other hand, it is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro The Lives of Christopher Chant

Fuente: The Lives of Christopher Chant

“I'm delirious," said Howl. "Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders," said Sophie. "Why can't you cure yourself with a spell?"
"Because there is no cure for a cold," Howl said dolefully.”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Variante: It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
Fuente: Howl's Moving Castle

“SHE LIKES MY SPARK!!!!--Calcifer”

Diana Wynne Jones libro El castillo ambulante

Fuente: Howl's Moving Castle