Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake.
ENID BLYTONAll the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
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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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They 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.
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I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It’s their children I love.
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The children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.
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The point is not that I don’t recognise bad people when I see them – I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them – the point is that I know a good person when I see one.
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Make up your mind about things, by all means – but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind,
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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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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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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people’s minds and know when anything unusual was going on.
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