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“I have seen him climbing a tree while she stood beneath him in unutterable anguish; she had to let him climb, for boys must be brave, but I am sure that, as she watched him, she fell from every branch.” (The Little White Bird Quotes)
J. M. Barrie
The Little White Bird
“It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can’t do it on windy days because then you are not there, but the fallen leaves do it instead of you. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.”
J. M. Barrie
The Little White Bird
“It is idle to attempt to overtake a pretty young woman carrying pork chops. I was now determined to be done with her. First, however, to find out their abode, which was probably within easy distance of the shop. I even conceived them lured into taking their house by the advertisement, “Conveniently situation for the Pork Emporium.”
J. M. Barrie
The Little White Bird
“Life and death, the child and the mother, are ever meeting as the one draws into harbour and the other sets sail. They exchange a bright “All’s well” and pass on.”
J. M. Barrie
The Little White Bird
“She has been putting qualities into David, altering him, turning him forever on a lathe since the day she first knew him, and indeed long before, and all so deftly that he is still called a child of nature.”
J. M. Barrie
The Little White Bird
“So fond of babes was this little mother that she had always room near her for one more”
J. M. Barrie
The Little White Bird
“Surely a spirited old lady may be the prettiest sight in the world.”
J. M. Barrie
The Little White Bird
“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
J. M. Barrie
The Little White Bird
“What is afraid?’ asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. ‘I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,’ he said.”
J. M. Barrie
The Little White Bird
“When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, which it is a great pity you can’t write down, for gradually you forget, and I have heard of children who declared that they had never once seen a fairy.”
J. M. Barrie
The Little White Bird
“You can be good in the Broad Walk all the time, but not at the Round Pond, and the reason is that you forget, and, when you remember, you are so wet that you may as well be wetter.”
J. M. Barrie
The Little White Bird
