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“They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
― A.A. Milne

“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
― J.M. Barrie

“Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“Every villain is a hero in his own mind.”
― Tom Hiddleston

“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
― J.M. Barrie

“He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
― A.A. Milne

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
― A.A. Milne

“I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."

(The Record Lie)”
― A.A. Milne, If I May

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see”
― A.A. Milne

“Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.”
― A.A. Milne

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“She let her hands play in the hair of the tragic boy. She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Complete Adventures of Peter Pan

“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski