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.
JAMES M. BARRIEFor 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.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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.
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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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