I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

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

Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.

The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.