J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan SENTENCE STARTERS.
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
“Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning. ”
“To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
“Never is an awfully long time.”
“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.”
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
“Oh, the cleverness of me!”
“I suppose it’s like the ticking crocodile, isn’t it? Time is chasing after all of us.”
“I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?”
“Just always be waiting for me.”
“All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.”
“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”
“Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?”
“when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.”
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.”
“I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
“Boy, why are you crying?”
“and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.”
“I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.”
“I’ll teach you how to jump on the wind’s back, and then away we go.”
“Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.”
“Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them”
“Two is the beginning of the end.”
“Forever is a very long time”
“no matter how hard we try to be mature, we will always be a kid when we all get hurt and cry”
“It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.”
“astonishing splashes of colour”
“I think it’s perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls…”
“when there’s a smile in your heart, there’s no better time to start”
“Don’t you understand (name) You mean more to me than anything in this whole world!”
“You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”