It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
I is a dreamblowing giant,” the BFG said. “(…) I is scuddling away to other places to blow dreams into the bedrooms of sleeping children. Nice dreams. Lovely golden dreams. Dreams that is giving the dreamers a happy time.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children’s book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else.
A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released and allowed to do its job. If it is a bad one, it is always fighting to get out.
I shall never have a bath again,” I said. “Just dont have one too often,” my grandmother said. “Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child.” It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.
The matter with human beans,” the BFG went on, “is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.
I’m wondering what to read next.” Matilda said. “I’ve finished all the children’s books.
There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.
Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever and did not notice the passing of time.
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
The act of copulation is like that of picking the nose. It’s all right to be doing it yourself but it is a singularly unattractive spectacle for the onlooker.
It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
Children should never have baths,’ my grandmother said. ‘It’s a dangerous habit.’‘I agree, Grandmamma.
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.
You seemed so far away,” Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.”Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings,” Matilda said. “It was wonderful.
I’m afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.
Never get out of bed, never go to the window, and never look behind the curtain.
It is most unlikely. But–here comes the big “but”–not impossible.
A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY
She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn’t.
It’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
All grown-ups appear as giants to small children. But Headmasters (and policemen) are the biggest giants of all and acquire a marvellously exaggerated stature.
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy.
My darling,” she said at last, are you sure you don’t mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?””I don’t mind at all” I said.It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.
We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want – or near enough.
What sort of a book would you like to read next?” she asked.
Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.