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.

I like well to be in the company of explorers

Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others

After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.