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Odds bobs, hammer and tongs I'm burning.
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Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
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They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.
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We are all failures- at least the best of us are.
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He decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputedto know a good deal. — J.M. Barrie
to have faith is to have wings. Now,
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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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Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.
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I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
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Two is the beginning of the end.
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I can give you the power to fly to her house," the Queen said, "but I can't open the door for you.
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Forever is a very long time Peter
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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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Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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Asleep to rummage in their minds
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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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Even though you want to try to, never grow up
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The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.
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See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
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Fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them
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Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night
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I am the best there ever was!
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All you need is Faith, Trust and a little Pixie Dust
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The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
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He swore this terrible oath: Hook or me this time.
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....And for that instant his sun was at noon.
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I remember kisses," said Slightly. "Let me see. Aye, that is a kiss. A powerful thing.
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Whenever a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there's a little fairy somewhere that falls right down dead
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It was the work of one brutal moment to land the beautiful girl on the rock; she was too proud to offer a vain resistance.
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
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Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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Wendy came first, then John, then Michael.
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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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Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny.
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I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!
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Why, what is the matter, father dear?' 'Matter!' he yelled; he really yelled. 'This tie, it will not tie.
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John and Michael raced, Michael getting a start.
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All children, except one, grow up.
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I'm not young enough to know everything.
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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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He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.
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Thus did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.
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There was a commotion in the firmament, and the smallest of all the stars in the Milky Way screamed out: Now, Peter!
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Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
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He (Captain Hook) was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding.
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You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.
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If it's meant to be, it will be.
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Second to the right, and straight on till morning.That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland — J.M. Barrie
POLICEMAN. Good luck. (She finds it easiest just to nod in reply) I wish I was a Prince.
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Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs.
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No matter how hard we try to be mature, we will always be a kid when we all get hurt and cry
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Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.
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Always be a little kinder than necessary.
— J.M. Barrie
