Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.

J.M. Barrie


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Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient!
How am I deficient?
You're just a boy.

J.M. Barrie


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The best place a person can die, is where they die for others

J.M. Barrie


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Oh, the cleverness of me!

J.M. Barrie

Tags: peter-pan-clever-arrogance



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Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

J.M. Barrie


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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

Tags: death fairies



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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

J.M. Barrie

Tags: inspirational



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Never is an awfully long time.

J.M. Barrie


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and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

J.M. Barrie


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We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

J.M. Barrie

Tags: success learning moving-on failure self-criticism



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