“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.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”
― Matilda
― Matilda
Lilli’s 2025 Year in Books
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