J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan

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Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came. "Perhaps he is ill," Michael said. "You know he is never ill." Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, "Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!" and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.

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Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

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It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.

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You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

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Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents...

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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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