asleep to rummage in their minds

This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

Always be kinder than necessary.

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.

She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.

I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.