It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy.
She says she glories in being abandoned
You just think lovely wonderful thoughts, Peter explained, and they lift you up in the air.
The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.
Ambition: it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
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 h...
Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons...
We are all failures- at least the best of us are.
Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.
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.
Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
All her tormentings of me turned suddenly into sweetnesses, and who could torment like this exquisite fury, wondering in sudden flame why she could give herself to anyone, while I wondered only why sh...
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear.
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 bee...
Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs.
A strange smile was playing about his face, and Wendy saw it and shuddered. While that smile was on his face no one dared address him; all they could do was to stand ready to obey.
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.
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