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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

J.M. Barrie

Top 10 Best Quotes

“He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.”

“It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.”

“David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.”

“The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.”

“The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.”

“For otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”

“Thus, when you cry out, 'Greedy! Greedy!' to the bird that flies away with the big crust, you know now that you ought not to do this, for he is very likely taking it to Peter Pan.”

“There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.”

“he decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed to know a good deal.”

“I can give you the power to fly to her house," the Queen said, "but I can't open the door for you.”

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