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.
JAMES M. BARRIEWendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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