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Mrs. Pentstemmon
Megan is Howl’s sister; she lives in Wales with her husband and two children, Mari and Neil. Megan and Howl have a difficult relationship, as Megan feels like Howl is abusing her kindness and support by storing things at her house and doing nothing with the education she helped pay for. (She doesn’t know about Howl’s successful life in Ingary.) Once Sophie sees how condescending and disapproving Megan is when she speaks to Howl, she understands how and why Howl has turned into a “slitherer-outer”—Megan is intimidating.
Megan Parry Quotes in Howl’s Moving Castle
The Howl’s Moving Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Megan Parry or refer to Megan Parry. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Eleven
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“Are you trying to bring me down to your level? You had all that education, and you don’t even get a decent job, you just hang around, wasting all that time at college, wasting all those sacrifices other people made, wasting your money…”
[…] Sophie began to understand how Howl had acquired the habit of slithering out. Megan was the kind of person who made you want to back quietly out of the nearest door. […]
“… never doing an honest day’s work, never getting a job I could be proud of, bringing shame on me and Gareth, coming here and spoiling Mari rotten,” Megan ground on remorselessly.
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Megan Parry Quotes in Howl’s Moving Castle
The Howl’s Moving Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Megan Parry or refer to Megan Parry. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter Eleven
Quotes
“Are you trying to bring me down to your level? You had all that education, and you don’t even get a decent job, you just hang around, wasting all that time at college, wasting all those sacrifices other people made, wasting your money…”
[…] Sophie began to understand how Howl had acquired the habit of slithering out. Megan was the kind of person who made you want to back quietly out of the nearest door. […]
“… never doing an honest day’s work, never getting a job I could be proud of, bringing shame on me and Gareth, coming here and spoiling Mari rotten,” Megan ground on remorselessly.
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