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. BARRIEThose who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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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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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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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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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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