She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
JAMES M. BARRIEAlways try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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 am not young enough to know everything.
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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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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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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.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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