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.
ENID BLYTONAll 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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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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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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I don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘
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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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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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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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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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Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
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You’re trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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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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Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!
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Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
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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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