Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.
I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.
I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.
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?
I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?
A little magic can take you a long way.