I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
ENID BLYTONI 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.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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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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Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
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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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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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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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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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Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,’ said Bessie. ‘Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too – and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!
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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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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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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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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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I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it’s a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
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It 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.
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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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