She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
JAMES M. BARRIEI am not young enough to know everything.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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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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