Quote by Roald Dahl (about January, July)

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

Roald Dahl

January July

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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

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Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change colour every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little darkred sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.

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I've heard tell, that what you imagine sometimes comes true.

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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.

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It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

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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.

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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life they had never seen.

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Life is more fun if you play games.

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

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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

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Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

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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.

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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

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"Oh man, what a year it was!"
"Dude, it's mid January."

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If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.

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I'm not worried. If people do scary things to you, you can just do scary things back.

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I wouldn't give up my family for anything. Not for all the chocolate in the world.

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Everything in this room is eatable. Even I'm eatable. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

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Food Chocolate

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

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It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

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I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

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The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

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The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

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The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

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Falling in love

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

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She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

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