Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
JAMES M. BARRIEChildren 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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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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 don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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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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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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