“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, Roald Dahl
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it..."
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
"'I ate marmalade,'" he said rather proudly. "Bear's like marmalade. And I live in a lifeboat."'
A Bear Called Paddington, Micheal Bond
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
Harry Potter and The deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes."
Animal Farm, George Orwell
"So there are cakes and pillows and colours galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything."
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
“The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst.
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
You can dive head first into these wonderful stories while nibbling on a tasty Jackernut. The cafe at Sevenoaks Book Shop will open your eyes and hearts to shelves piled high with books galore, while offering you a pot of tea, a jackernut on a proper cake plate, and a quiet haven to flick through the pages of novel,
or to read an Enid Blyton tale to your little one,
or to have a good chinwag with a friend,
or to catch a few moments of peace while you watch the world go by...
...or take pen to paper and write a best seller of your own.
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