I do love the beginning of the summer hols,’ said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.’ ‘They go so nice and slowly at first,’ said Anne, his little sister. ‘Then they start to gallop.
ENID BLYTONThey saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.
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Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.
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We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
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Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
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You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly – and that is a great thing.
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The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful.
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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off,
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I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it’s feeble to change your mind once it’s made up. That’s a wrong idea, you know.
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I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
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I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.
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I don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘
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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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