Children 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.
JAMES M. BARRIE…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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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 am not young enough to know everything.
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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