Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

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

...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

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.

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.