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A young Scotsman of your ability let loose upon the world with 300 pounds, what could he not do? It's almost appalling to think of; especially if he went among the English


James Matthew Barrie

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J.M. BARRIE The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for...
J.M. BARRIE The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will ...
J.M. BARRIE So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and y...
J.M. BARRIE To live will be an awfully big adventure.
J.M. BARRIE I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre.
BARRIE KEEFFE Shoot the Wendybird!
J.M. BARRIE Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like ...
J.M. BARRIE Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could...
J.M. BARRIE Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the ...
J.M. BARRIE Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by;...
J.M. BARRIE Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly,...
J.M. BARRIE I am the best there ever was!
J.M. BARRIE He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.
J.M. BARRIE One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he...
J.M. BARRIE Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny...
J.M. BARRIE But where do you live mostly now?"
With the lost boys."
Who are they?"
They are the c...
J.M. BARRIE Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she wa...
J.M. BARRIE Why can't you fly now, mother?"
"Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forge...
J.M. BARRIE She asked where he lived.

Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till m...
J.M. BARRIE Build a house?" exclaimed John.

"For the Wendy," said Curly.

"For Wendy?" John...
J.M. BARRIE Two is the beginning of the end.
J.M. BARRIE