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.

I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

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

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

If you are good life is good.

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.