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Peter Pan quotes

J. M. Barrie

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“one girl is more use than twenty boys.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“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
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“one girl is worth more than twenty boys.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever.” 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.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“'Build a house? . . . For Wendy? . . . Why, she is only a girl!' 'That . . . is why we are her servants.'” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe! If you believe, clap your hands!” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“'Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?' 'Nothing, precious . . . they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.'” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Do you know . . . why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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