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.
JAMES M. BARRIEShe asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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