"One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!"

-- Randa Abdel-Fattah

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“And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city”
“Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.”

Source : Gregory Maguire (2009). “A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years”, p.25, Harper Collins
“What God is to the world, parents are to their children.”
“The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.”
“It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.”
“Did she just-" "Yes." "But I don't-" "Yes you do. We both stink." "Well, I'm not-" "Yes. You are." He huffed. "You wont let-" "No. No complaining. Let's go." I grabbed a clean shirt and pants from my saddlebags. "Well, she could have handled it better," he grumped. "No. She couldn't." He settled into a sulky silence as we visited the bathhouse.”
“Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.”
“I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.”

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