What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.

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

I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they might not even have been there, those small downward lines of sorrow.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

...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.

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.