I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
JAMES M. BARRIEBut the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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”She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Feeling 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.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
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