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“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
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“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
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“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
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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.”
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
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“Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
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“To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
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“Never is an awfully long time.”
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“All children, except one, grow up.”
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“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.”
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“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.”
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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.”
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“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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“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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“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
Sir James Barrie, Peter Pan
“Oh, the cleverness of me!”
James M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.”
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“Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily.
"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
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“I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?”
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan and Wendy
“She asked where he lived.

Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.”
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“Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”
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“All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.”
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“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”
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“There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.”
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.”
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“and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.”
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.”
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“I'll hold you in my heart, until I can hold you in my arms.”
JM Barrie, Peter Pan: J M Barrie illustrated by Steve Hutton
“You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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