…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
JAMES M. BARRIE…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
JAMES M. BARRIE”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. BARRIEIf I were younger, I’d know more.
JAMES M. BARRIEBut 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. BARRIEAlways try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
JAMES M. BARRIEAbsence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
JAMES M. BARRIEThere are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
JAMES M. BARRIE…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIEThem that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
JAMES M. BARRIENever say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
JAMES M. BARRIEI don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
JAMES M. BARRIEFeeling 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.
JAMES M. BARRIEI sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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.
JAMES M. BARRIEShe asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
JAMES M. BARRIEThere is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
JAMES M. BARRIE