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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
— Matilda
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker is baffled and irritated that children take so long to grow up, and suggests they're doing it on purpose to annoy. The humour is in treating ordinary childhood as a deliberate act of provocation.
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