She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
JAMES M. BARRIEFeeling 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.
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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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