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1. "If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire." ~ J.M. Barrie
2. "Why can't you fly now, mother?""Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way.""Why do they forget the way?""Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly." ~ J.M. Barrie
3. "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." ~ J.M. Barrie
4. "Boy, why are you crying?" ~ J.M. Barrie
5. "It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness." ~ J.M. Barrie
6. "Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night-lights." ~ J.M. Barrie
7. "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." ~ J.M. Barrie
8. "Oh, the cleverness of me!" ~ J.M. Barrie
9. "If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing." ~ J.M. Barrie
10. "David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'." ~ J.M. Barrie
11. "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..." ~ J.M. Barrie
12. "Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses." ~ J.M. Barrie
13. "Peter Llewelyn Davies: This is absurd. It's just a dog. J.M. Barrie: Just a dog? *Just*? [to Porthos] J.M. Barrie: Porthos, don't listen! [to Peter] J.M. Barrie: Porthos dreams of being a bear, and you want to shatter those dreams by saying he's *just* a dog? What a horrible candle-snuffing word. That's like saying, "He can't climb that mountain, he's just a man", or "That's not a diamond, it's just a rock." Just." ~ J.M. Barrie
14. "The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings." ~ J.M. Barrie
15. "On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more." ~ J.M. Barrie
16. "After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy." ~ J.M. Barrie
17. "He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also." ~ J.M. Barrie
18. "?"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles." ~ J.M. Barrie
19. "I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?" ~ J.M. Barrie
20. "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." ~ J.M. Barrie
21. "Second to the right, and straight on till morning."That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland" ~ J.M. Barrie
22. "Don't forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age; there will be time for meekness when you try to better it. Very soon you will be Victorian or that sort of thing yourselves; next session probably, when the freshman come up." ~ J.M. Barrie
23. "He was never more sinister than when he was most polite..." ~ J.M. Barrie
24. "Forever is a very long time Peter" ~ J.M. Barrie
25. "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." ~ J.M. Barrie
26. "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." ~ J.M. Barrie
27. "Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown" ~ J.M. Barrie
28. "She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful." ~ J.M. Barrie
29. "Wendy, ein Mädchen ist mehr wert als zwanzig Jungen." ~ J.M. Barrie
30. "Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours." ~ J.M. Barrie
31. "growing up is simply getting old. Growing up is when you don't believe anymore" ~ J.M. Barrie
32. "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." ~ J.M. Barrie
33. "It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children." ~ J.M. Barrie
34. "Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of course, they had a nurse. As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her. She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses. She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse." ~ J.M. Barrie
35. "When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?' ‘O Peter,' she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,' he said. ‘I expect she is no more.' I expect he was right, for fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them." ~ J.M. Barrie
36. "This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was postiviely deafening." ~ J.M. Barrie
37. "Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defense, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home" ~ J.M. Barrie
38. "And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied. The children waited for her cry of joy, but it did not come. She saw them, but she did not believe they were there. You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still." ~ J.M. Barrie
39. "They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it." ~ J.M. Barrie
40. "Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons." ~ J.M. Barrie
41. "Thus did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true." ~ J.M. Barrie
42. "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." ~ J.M. Barrie
43. "Mrs. Darling: There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams. Michael: Where did he put them? Mrs. Darling: He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave." ~ J.M. Barrie
44. "asleep to rummage in their minds" ~ J.M. Barrie
45. "- Porque é que já não sabe voar, mãe?-Porque já sou crescida, meu amor. Quando as pessoas crescem esquecem-se de como se faz.- Porque é que se esquecem?- Porque já não são alegres, inocentes e cruéis. Só quem for alegre, inocente e cruel é que consegue voar." ~ J.M. Barrie
46. "Si tienes amor, no necesitas nada más; y si no lo tienes, no importa demasiado qué más tengas." ~ J.M. Barrie
47. "None of them knew. Perhaps it was best not to know. Their ignorance gave them one more glad hour; and as it was to be their last hour on the island, let us rejoice that there were sixty glad minutes in it. They sang and danced in their night-gowns. Such a deliciously creepy song it was, in which they pretended to be frightened at their own shadows, little witting that so soon shadows would close in upon them, from whom they would shrink in real fear. So uproariously gay was the dance, and how they buffeted each other on the bed and out of it! It was a pillow fight rather than a dance, and when it was finished, the pillows insisted on one bout more, like partners who know that they may never meet again. The stories they told, before it was time for Wendy's good-night story! Even Slightly tried to tell a story that night, but the beginning was so fearfully dull that it appalled not only the others but himself, and he said happily:" ~ J.M. Barrie
48. "Build a house?" exclaimed John."For the Wendy," said Curly."For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!""That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants." ~ J.M. Barrie
49. "It was then that Hook bit him.Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. 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." ~ J.M. Barrie
50. "Would you like an adventure now," he said casually to John, "or would you like to have your tea first?" ~ J.M. Barrie
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