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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

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

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.