J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan

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I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don't want to be a man.

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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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I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

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In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

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When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.

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He was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second. He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland, that everytime you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them of vindictively as fast as possible.

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You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

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Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

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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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There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.

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I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.

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Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe! If you believe, clap your hands!

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One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.

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Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.

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Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

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He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

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You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.

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They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

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They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

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The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

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After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

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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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He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.

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She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies.

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She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

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Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

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Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

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After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.

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The man is not wholly evil: he has a Thesaurus in his cabin.
Of Captain Hook

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