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Odds bobs, hammer and tongs I'm burning.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

Even by day they hung about, smoking the pipe of peace, and looking almost as if they wanted tit-bits to eat. They

Do you want an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?

He decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed
to know a good deal.

She is called Tinker Bell because she mends the pots and kettles.

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

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.

Stand forth the one who did this thing

To live would be an awfully big adventure.

They have real glasses and real wine of three kinds, namely, blackthorn wine, berberris wine, and cowslip wine,

Peter had seen many tragedies, but he had forgotten them all.

astonishing splashes of colour

James Hook, thou not wholly unheroic figure, farewell. For we have come to his last moment.

For, to a child, the oddest of things, and the most richly coloured picture-book, is that his mother was once a child also.

I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.

He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

Fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night

I am the best there ever was!

What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?

He swore this terrible oath: Hook or me this time.

....And for that instant his sun was at noon.

When there's a smile in your heart, there's no better time to start

For long I could not close my ears that night: I lay listening, I knew not what for. A scare was on me that made me dislike the dark,

They heard Peter crow. 'Peter!' they cried, for it was always thus that he signalled his return. 'Hide

Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours.

Yo ho, yo ho, the pirate life, The flag o' skull and bones, A merry hour, a hempen rope, And hey for Davy Jones.' At

To live will be an awfully big adventure.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

He thought of hopping off in a comic sort of way till he was out of sight of her, and then never going near the spot any more.

She asked where he lived.
Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

He came back, and there was a greedy look in his eyes now which ought to have alarmed her, but did not. 'Oh,

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

Twin, I think you should not have dreamt that, for I didn't, and Peter may say we oughtn't to dream differently, being twins, you know.

Oh, the cleverness of me!

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient!
How am I deficient?
You're just a boy.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

You will be a Betwixt-and-Between,

fairies never say "We feel happy": what they say is, "We feel dancey." Well,

Better for Hook,' he cried, 'if he had had less ambition.' It was in his darkest hours only that he referred to himself in the third person. 'No

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.' 'What

They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don't know how dangerous 'tis to eat rich damp cake.

He (Captain Hook) was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding.

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

If it's meant to be, it will be.

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Growing up is simply getting old. Growing up is when you don't believe anymore

POLICEMAN. Good luck. (She finds it easiest just to nod in reply) I wish I was a Prince.

No matter how hard we try to be mature, we will always be a kid when we all get hurt and cry

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite ...

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

He was so fond of her, he felt he could not live without her. "She will forget her mother in time, and be happy with me," he kept saying to himself,

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

I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!

Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.

All children, except one, grow up.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny.

The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals

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

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

Thus did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

There never was a simpler, happier family until the coming of Peter Pan.

A child should never go to bed, they only wake up a day older.

Forever is a very long time Peter

Wall-flower juice is good for reviving dancers who fall to the ground in a fit, and Solomon's Seals juice is for bruises. They bruise very easily

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

The moment where you doubt you can fly, you cease forever being able to do it.

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience ... and pimples.

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.

I remember kisses," said Slightly. "Let me see. Aye, that is a kiss. A powerful thing.

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.

I can give you the power to fly to her house," the Queen said, "but I can't open the door for you.

Two is the beginning of the end.

She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.

It was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Mrs. Darling stretched out her arms to him, but he repulsed her. Keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man.

If you wish it.
Slightly: If you wish it?
Peter: IF YOU WISH IT.

Asleep to rummage in their minds

The pirates, listening avidly at the mouths of the trees, heard the question put by every boy, and alas, they also heard Peter's answer.

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

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.