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

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

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

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.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.

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