Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl

They all looked forward to Sundays because then, although they had exactly the same, everyone was allowed a second helping.

Charlie would make his ten-cent bar of birthday chocolate last him for more than a month.

Willy Wonka, the greatest inventor and maker of chocolates that there has ever been.

There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

The cacao bean,” Mr. Wonka continued, “which grows on the cacao tree, happens to be the thing from which all chocolate is made. You cannot make chocolate without the cacao bean. The cacao bean is chocolate. I myself use billions of cacao beans every week in this factory.