You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

...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.

You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.

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.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

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