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I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

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.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

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.

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.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

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