{"author":"J.M. Barrie","author_id":"J.M.+Barrie","total_quotes":75,"quotes":[{"text":"Courage is the thing. All goes if courage. ","author":"J.M. Barrie","tags":["courage"],"id":2296,"author_id":"J.M.+Barrie"},{"text":"For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face.'So, Pan,' said Hook at last, 'this is all your doing.'Ay, James Hook,' came the stern answer, 'it is all my doing.'Proud and insolent youth,' said Hook, 'prepare to meet thy doom.'Dark and sinister man,“For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face.'Dark and sinister man,' Peter answered, 'have at thee.","author":"J.M. Barrie","tags":["courage","duel"],"id":4744,"author_id":"J.M.+Barrie"},{"text":"Good form without knowing it is the best form of all.","author":"J.M. Barrie","tags":["culture","habit","parenthood","practice"],"id":11000,"author_id":"J.M.+Barrie"},{"text":"Pan, who and what art thou?' he cried huskily.'I'm youth, I'm joy,' Peter answered at a venture, 'I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.","author":"J.M. Barrie","tags":["birds","joy","youth"],"id":14343,"author_id":"J.M.+Barrie"},{"text":"It is the custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake in the morning, the naughtinesses and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.","author":"J.M. Barrie","tags":["children","mothers","thoughts"],"id":29169,"author_id":"J.M.+Barrie"},{"text":"Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.","author":"J.M. Barrie","tags":["childhood"],"id":34743,"author_id":"J.M.+Barrie"},{"text":"She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.","author":"J.M. Barrie","tags":["children-s-literature","fantasy","peter-pan"],"id":37314,"author_id":"J.M.+Barrie"},{"text":"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.","author":"J.M. Barrie","tags":["love"],"id":45906,"author_id":"J.M.+Barrie"},{"text":"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.","author":"J.M. Barrie","tags":["ambitions","life","plans","reality-check"],"id":68471,"author_id":"J.M.+Barrie"},{"text":"If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.","author":"J.M. Barrie","tags":["music"],"id":71948,"author_id":"J.M.+Barrie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":75,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}