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. BARRIEAbsence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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…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 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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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