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. BARRIEBut 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.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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