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.
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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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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