For 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.
JAMES M. BARRIEAbsence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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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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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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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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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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