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. BARRIEHow shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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