A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. - The Twits
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone. - Matilda
All you do is to look/ at a page in this book/ because that’s where we always will be. No book ever ends/ when it’s full of your friends. - The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me