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. BARRIEShe asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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