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.
JAMES M. BARRIEAbsence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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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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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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