“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.”
“As a matter of fact it wouldn’t be safe to tell any man the truth about his wife! Funnily enough, I’d trust most women with the truth about their husbands. Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.”
“The question I ve asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I supposed these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking how are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?”
“I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it s that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it s going to work. It s astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.”
“He held up his index finger. Rule one: in any dispute between mates, the male is always to blame, even when he is clearly blameless. Rule two —his middle finger joined the first— whenever in doubt, refer to rule one.”
“Nicasia said that as mortal power grows, land and sea ought to be united. And that they would be, either in the way she hoped or the way I should fear.” “Ominous,” I say. “It seems I have a singular taste for women who threaten me.”
“Something my dad says...He says you end up marrying the one you don t understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying.”
“The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.”
“I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.”
“She was blissfully unaware of her peril.”
“Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I d have to give it up.”
“True love is 80% giving 20% receiving”
“We will have a happy marriage if it kills him.”
“As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.”
“God doesn t ordain stupidity.”
“Marry someone who loves you because he was not only going to make you happy but he would never hurt you one millimeter too”
“If you fall in love, you feel forever young.”