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The goal of this blog is to preserve a few ideas and quotes from books I read. In the old days when books were not so readily available, people kept "commonplace books" where they copied choice passages they wanted to be able to remember and perhaps reuse. The idea got picked up by V.F.D. and it's common knowledge that most of that organization's volunteers have kept commonplace books, and so have Laura and I.

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22 May 2011

Howl's Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones)

Very nice. It's sad that i knew about this only when the author passed away. I'm looking forward to reading more of her books. I love the hints she drops for the reader along the way. Great characters too.


Quotes:

As a girl, Sophie would have shriveled with embarrassment at the way she was behaving. As an old woman, she did not mind what she did or said. She found that a great relief.

You’ll find every spell of power has at least one deliberate mistake or mystery in it to prevent accidents. (Howl)

“Yellow powder, fourth jar along on the second shelf,” Calcifer whispered back. “Those spells are mostly belief. Don’t look uncertain when you give it to him.”

The King was smiling. It was the slightly uncertain smile that went with the person he was, rather than the king he ought to be.

“Dead?” said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.

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