I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
JAMES M. BARRIEShe asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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”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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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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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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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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