”She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
JAMES M. BARRIEThere is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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