Quotes

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings. ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens "Do you know," Peter asked "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories." ~ Peter Pan by James M. Barrie "Every time a child says, `I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead." ~ Peter Pan by James M. Barrie "You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." ~ Peter Pan by James M. Barrie "To die will be an awfully big adventure." ~ Peter Pan by James M. Barrie The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal. ~ Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone. He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to stray from the truth and just how far to colour it so as to change its shape for his own purposes. ~ Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences. ~ Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. ~ The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man; we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space. ~ The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells