Never is an awfully long time.
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
Shoot the Wendybird!
Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.
You just think lovely wonderful thoughts,” Peter explained, “and they lift you up in the air.
Every child is thus affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards be quite the same boy.
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
Would you like an adventure now,” he said casually to John, “or would you like to have your tea first?
A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.