Quotes from work

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 witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.”

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”

“What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.”

“The maid screamed.
The Queen gasped.
Sophie waved.”

“We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.”

“Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.”

“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.”

“Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.”

“You is getting nosier than a parker.”

“A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?”

“Ah, but they is not killing their own kind," the BFG said. "Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.”

“Dreams is very mystical things," the BFG said. "Human beans is not understanding them at all. Not even their brainiest professors is understanding them.”