378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

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    The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

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    I think it’s perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls...

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    Every time you say you don’t believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

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    Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown.

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    I think I love you in my own way, but I thought I loved you in their way, and it is the only way that counts in this world of theirs.

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

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    Peter invented, with Wendy’s help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures...

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