The snozberries taste like snozberries!

Obscurity is never a virtue.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.

We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

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.

It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself

You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!

I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.

Badger: The cuss you are. Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.