“My greatest pleasure was the enjoyment of a serene sky amidst these verdant woods: yet I loved all the changes of Nature; and rain, and storm, and the beautiful clouds of heaven brought their delights with them.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.comTagged: Pleasure, Enjoyment, Nature, Sky, Rain
“Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.comTagged: Encouraging, Motivational Quotes, Pushing It Too Far
“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.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.comTagged: Books, Literature, Reading
“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.comTagged: Bookworm, Reading
“You blithering idiot! You festering gumboil! You fleabitten fungus! You bursting blister! You moth-eaten maggot!”— Roald Dahl, amazon.comTagged: insults, Idiot, Maggots
“Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.comTagged: Children's Book Quotes, Children's Books
“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.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.comTagged: first lines of books
“And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.comTagged: Roald Dahl