Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.

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.

I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.