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.
JAMES M. BARRIEChildren have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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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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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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