There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

If you are good life is good.

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

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.

You seemed so far away, " Miss Honey whispered, awestruck."Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings, " Matilda said. "It was wonderful.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't.

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

Can’t trust no one else to do what you won’t do for yourself.

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

Being a werewolf, an alpha more so, isn't about being aggressive over others but controlling yourself, the wolf's wild virus inside my DNA, and emotions that comes with the beast.

The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the process of liberating itself from the same thing.

The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth Cause I'll break your face...

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.