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"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."
— J.M. Barrie

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"'Peter,' she asked, trying to speak firmly, 'what are your exact feelings for me?'
'Those of a devoted son, Wendy.'
'I thought so,' she said, and went and sat by herself at the extreme end of the room.
'You are so queer,' he said, frankly puzzled, 'and Tiger Lily is just the same. There is something she wants to be to me, but she says it is not my mother.'
'No, indeed, it is not,' Wendy replied with frightful emphasis."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: adolescence, love
10 people liked it

"I'm not young enough to know everything."
— J.M. Barrie

tags: wisdom
17 people liked it

"I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking."
— Geraldine McCaughrean (Peter Pan in Scarlet)

tags: clowns, in, pan, peter, scarlet
14 people liked it

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
— J.M. Barrie

34 people liked it

"Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter and Wendy)

6 people liked it

"There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain."
— Obert Skye (Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want)

10 people liked it

"You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: growing, up
29 people liked it

"... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it."
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

tags: story
61 people liked it

""Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?"
"Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.""
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

30 people liked it

"I know I would crumble if I lost you."
— Shannon Hale (Enna Burning)

tags: romantic
37 people liked it

""What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?""
— Shannon Hale (Princess Academy)

14 people liked it

"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: dust, faith, life, pixie, trust
131 people liked it

"We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be."
— Obert Skye (Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want)

18 people liked it

"And than he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

53 people liked it

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
— J.M. Barrie

115 people liked it

"You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always think of you."
— J.M. Barrie

91 people liked it

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: eating, reading
154 people liked it

"You can make anything by writing."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: writing
152 people liked it

"You can't judge the many by the actions of the few."
— Michael Buckley (The Fairy-Tale Detectives)

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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
— C.S. Lewis (The World's Last Night: And Other Essays)

tags: age, fairy-tales
202 people liked 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."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

90 people liked it

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: age, dreams, goals
399 people liked it

"Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

99 people liked it

"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."
— C.S. Lewis (The Silver Chair)

tags: hell, love, safe
412 people liked it

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: children-s, entertainment, stories
878 people liked it

"Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice."
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

tags: humor
421 people liked it

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

tags: love
1,509 people liked it

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen

tags: friends, humor, people
2,183 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
2,949 people liked it

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane Austen

tags: humor, love, romantic, women
1,507 people liked it

"The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.'"
— J.M. Barrie

12 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,175 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,321 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,604 people liked it

"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)

165 people liked it

"The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught."
— Lemony Snicket (The Blank Book)

tags: eavesdropping, gossip
132 people liked it

"When some is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: comfort, crying, tears
150 people liked it

"All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: reading, secrets
321 people liked it

"I'm man enough to know when to scream."
— Obert Skye (Pillage)

tags: fear, humor
14 people liked it

"The moral of Snow White is never eat apples."
— Lemony Snicket

277 people liked it

"It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

40 people liked it

"Well-read people are less likely to be criminals."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading
324 people liked it

"Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear."
— Lemony Snicket (The Carnivorous Carnival)

tags: humor, miracles
326 people liked it

"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men."
— Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

90 people liked it

"It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

342 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,420 people liked it

"Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck."
— Lemony Snicket

358 people liked it

"Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: love
411 people liked it

"A good library will never be too neat or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: libraries, reading
429 people liked it

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