Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.
J.M. BarrieStichwörter: childhood
Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
J.M. BarrieStichwörter: peter-pan neverland
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.
J.M. BarrieStichwörter: peter-pan pirates
But where do you live mostly now?"
With the lost boys."
Who are they?"
They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain."
What fun it must be!"
Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship."
Are none of the others girls?"
Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.
Stichwörter: girls peter-pan lost-boys
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. BarrieStichwörter: peter-pan dog nana nanny nursery
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. BarrieStichwörter: peter-pan imaginary neverland
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
J.M. BarrieThe life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
J.M. BarrieStichwörter: intention
There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.
J.M. BarrieNonsense. 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. BarrieStichwörter: childhood punishment
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