I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
JAMES M. BARRIEA woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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