“Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.”
― The BFG
― The BFG
“Sometimes, on a very clear night,’ the BFG said, ‘and if I is swiggling my ears in the right direction’ – and here he swivelled his great ears upwards so they were facing the ceiling – ‘if I is swiggling them like this and the night is very clear, I is sometimes hearing faraway music coming from the stars in the sky.’ A queer little shiver passed through Sophie’s body. She sat very quiet, waiting for more.”
― The BFG
― The BFG
“The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.”
― The BFG
― The BFG
“Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting to say, but somehow or other they is always getting squiff-squiddled around.”
― The BFG
― The BFG
“Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.”
― The BFG
― The BFG
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