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.
ENID BLYTONIt was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. ‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.
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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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Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
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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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They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by.
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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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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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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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My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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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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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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To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness – that is a very terrible thing.
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