Quotes from Enid Blyton

not feel very well.

as a matter-of-fact

But what a light!

I've got such a lovely feeling, said Lucy-Ann, looking the picture of happiness. You know - that feeling you get at the very beginning of a lovely holiday - when all the days spread out before you, sunny & lazy & sort of enchanted. You'll end up by being a poet if you don't look out, said Philip, from the wheel. Well, if a poet feels like I feel just exactly at this moment, I wouldn't mind being one for the rest of my life, even if it meant having to write poetry, said Lucy-Ann.

knots! 'Now, quick, let's go!' he cried. 'Sorry about tying you up, Oom-Boom-Boom, but you're not going to have Silky. Run everyone!' They ran up the winding passage and came out on the hillside. And oh, thank goodness, there was the rabbit waiting in his car! What a wonderful sight! Joe got to the car first.

You and your robins!

Well – fortune favours the bold!

idjits.' 'What's an idjit?' asked Anne.

Don't be an old dirty leaf, be a neat new leaf if you are an old dirty leaf you can't feed the plant and the plant will throw you from it if you are a neat new leaf you can feed the plant and the plant will keep you with it. The old dirty leaf means bad habits. The neat new leaf means good habits. The plant means every one around you.

The sun has drowned itself in the sea, said Lucy-Ann at last, as it disappeared.

my friend,' said Dick. 'Don't be silly.' 'I'm not silly

After a short discussion at the staff meeting we decided on – Sally Hope.

C'est terrible

it is you will insist that she does her duty byher

afternoon Pip's mother, Mrs Hilton, went to tea with Lady Candling

Libby seems a good sort. I don't know that I'm

cet enfant terrible,' that

that would matter, for the

CHAPTER SEVEN A TALK WITH THE CARETAKER

pointing. 'And if so, it looks as if tomorrow we ought to come to those hills above the lake. Then we

The third formers drank all this in avidly, casting sidelong glances at Esme to see how she was taking this.

The Enchanted Wood

You don't know what you're talking about,' said George, scornfully. 'Come on, you others!

Benjy awoke first in the morning, because the squirrel was trying to sit on his nose. Benjy couldn't think what was happening. His eyes shot open, he gasped for breath – and sat up. The squirrel fell off and leapt to the ground. Benjy picked it up at once – he didn't want it to scamper out of the doorway and be lost!