not liking Quotes

“Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”

Honor doesn’t like going to school and uses her vivid imagination to describe all the reasons she doesn’t like it. At the end of the book Honor is sad because although she doesn’t have to go to school anymore, she still says she’ll miss it.

″‘He is our father’s father, and he didn’t like our mother,’ said Henry. ‘So we don’t think he would like us. We are afraid he would be mean to us.‘”

“Man had a funny way of blaming the devil for things he didn’t like.”

“Dave didn’t like that Teddy at all. At that moment he didn’t like Bella much either because she kept winning things.”

″‘You’re a bottler,’ said Charlie gratefully. ‘Isn’t she, Simey?’ Simon couldn’t answer. If he opened his mouth, he knew he would yell ‘Don’t call me that’. And what was the use? It would just make another name that nobody could say. They had to call him Simey; they were Edie and Charlie.”

“My mother was right, I thought. They had their place and we had ours. He did not really like me, or he would have taken me along. He was different.”

“Deborah and Mummy called him a dear, too. But I don’t think he’s a dear. I don’t like him at all, and I hope he’ll stay always inside that brown-paper bag.”