Quote by Roald Dahl Download Open image ““What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.”” — Roald Dahl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Perhaps this was what it was to grow up: this realization that the world was already staffed with people and that one was not… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“She was right about one thing - I did need a caring, responsible adult around. If I could have cried on the shoulder of… — Monica Holloway Copy Share Image
“In the end, I realized there was only one person who could help me.. and that person was myself. I had to help myself.” — Victoria Spry Copy Share Image
“It was OK to need people; she was learning that. You just had to be careful.” — Nicole Richie Copy Share Image
“She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She’d never ask anybody for advice or help. It wasn’t a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had a powerful… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“Anyone would want to help the people they like. With all their strength. There is no question about it.” — Hotaru Odagiri Copy Share Image
“There was nobody who could help her. Nobody in the world. They were all on something, mad, possible enemies, dead.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“She felt weak and utterly forlorn. She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“There was money enough... but she asked so much of life, in ways so complex and immaterial. He thought of her as walking bare-footed… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“You need other people, Madeline. There's a great freedom in knowing that. And accepting that. And letting people in. Letting them help you.” — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is it raining, is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? - uh! Not a speck of light is showing So the danger must be growing Are the fires of Hell a-glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing? Yes!… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake, he paused for just a couple of seconds and took… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
