…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
JAMES M. BARRIEFeeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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For when you looked into my mother’s eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world – it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.
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Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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