She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
JAMES M. BARRIE”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 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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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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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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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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