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.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?