Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
JAMES M. BARRIEShe asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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…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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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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