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J. M. Barrie Quotes

J. M. Barrie quotes about adventure

Scottish Novelist May 9, 1860 – June 19, 1937

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Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. 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. J. M. Barrie
Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really... J. M. Barrie
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. J. M. Barrie
Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him. J. M. Barrie
Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night-lights. J. M. Barrie
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... J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie quote: "To live will be an awfully great adventure"
To live will be an awfully great adventure J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie quote: "Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if..."
Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe. J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie quote: "To live will be an awfully big adventure."
To live will be an awfully big adventure. J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie quote: "To die will be an awfully big adventure."
To die will be an awfully big adventure. J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie quote: "To die would be an awfully big adventure."
To die would be an awfully big adventure. J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie quote: "To die would be an awfully big adventure" - peter Pan"
To die would be an awfully big adventure" - peter Pan J. M. Barrie

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