{"author":"Enid Blyton","author_id":"Enid+Blyton","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!","author":"Enid Blyton","tags":["character","decisions","firm","honesty","judgement","motives","muddled"],"id":23328,"author_id":"Enid+Blyton"},{"text":"I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.''They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.","author":"Enid Blyton","tags":["days","gallop","holidays","summer","summer-holidays","time"],"id":30730,"author_id":"Enid+Blyton"},{"text":"The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.","author":"Enid Blyton","tags":["children","enchanting","haze","island","june","mysterious","nature","secret","willows"],"id":40031,"author_id":"Enid+Blyton"},{"text":"Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!","author":"Enid Blyton","tags":["caravan","fields","house","longing","towns","wheels"],"id":75634,"author_id":"Enid+Blyton"},{"text":"I think people make their own faces, as they grow.","author":"Enid Blyton","tags":["faces","grow","growing-up","people"],"id":78442,"author_id":"Enid+Blyton"},{"text":"You think if someone does a brave deed quite suddenly, then he or she could never do a mean one? You are wrong. We all have good and bad in us, and we have to strive all the time to make the good cancel out the bad. We can never be perfect - we all of us do mean or wrong things at times - but we can at least make amends by trying to cancel out the wrong by doing something worthy later on.","author":"Enid Blyton","tags":["bad","bravery","good","inspirational"],"id":83940,"author_id":"Enid+Blyton"},{"text":"I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.","author":"Enid Blyton","tags":["changing","changing-your-mind","feeble","ideas","pluck","strenght","wrong"],"id":100396,"author_id":"Enid+Blyton"},{"text":"Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into.‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.","author":"Enid Blyton","tags":["eating","eggs","evening","food","indoors","meals","nature","outdoors","picnics"],"id":100977,"author_id":"Enid+Blyton"},{"text":"Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people's minds and know when anything unusual was going on.","author":"Enid Blyton","tags":["dogs","mothers","sense","sharp"],"id":156675,"author_id":"Enid+Blyton"},{"text":"The moon was coming slowly up over the hill in front of them. The countryside was bathed in light, pale and cold and silvery. Everything could be seen quite plainly, and Lotta and Jimmy thought it was just like daytime with the colours missing.","author":"Enid Blyton","tags":["countryside","moon","moonlight","silvery"],"id":203750,"author_id":"Enid+Blyton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}