December 2011
206 posts
Peter: I was afraid because l didn't want to grow up, because everybody who grows up has to die someday. So l ran away. Tink, you came and you saved me. You brought me to Neverland. You taught me to fly. But l was still a little boy and l missed my mother. So l decided to fly home to my very own window. But it was shut. They'd forgotten about me. l found other windows to visit. Ones that weren't shut closed on me. That's how l met Wendy. I chased my shadow in her nursery. l expected my shadow and l would join together like drops of water.
Wendy: Boy. Why are you crying?
Peter: What's your name?
Wendy: Wendy Moira Angela Darling. What's yours?
Peter: I came back many times for Wendy, always in the spring. And Wendy kept getting older...and older... and then l came back the last time.
Wendy: Peter, l can't come with you. l've forgotten how to fly. l'm old, Peter. Ever so much more than 20. l grew up a long time ago.
Peter: No! No! You promised.
Wendy: l have children of my own now. They have children of their own. That's my grandchild, Moira, asleep in the bed.
Peter: When l saw her lying there sleeping, that moment, something changed in me forever.
Peter: l shall give her a kiss.
Wendy: No, Peter. No buttons. No thimbles. l couldn't bear Moira's heartbreak when she finds she can't keep you.
Peter: l mean a real kiss.
Tink: l can see why you have trouble finding a happy thought. So many sad memories, Peter.
Peter: Bye, Taddy. Not Taddy. Daddy. Daddy!
Moira: Peter, you're a daddy.
Peter: Hi, Jack.
Peter: I know why l came back. I know why l grew up. l wanted to be a father.
“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make you...”
– Sarah Dessen (via misswallflower)
“Come away.
Come away to Neverland.”
– Peter Pan (via wayward-watson)
“There was once, in the city of Kahani, in the land of Alifbay, a boy named Luka...”
– Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie (via novelfirstsentences)
“I have turned myself into a single, inevitable thing. I am an arrow speeding...”
– Salman Rushdie, Luka and the Fire of Life (via apingthehabit)
“We don’t know the answers to the great questions of who we are and what we are...”
– Salman Rushdie, Luka and the Fire of Life (via apingthehabit)
Luka and the Fire of Life - Salman Rushdie.
livingstill:
He landed with a thump in the riverside dust, and it rose up around him in a little golden cloud, which quickly formed itself into a creature, like a tiny living flame with wings. “Feed me and I live,” it said hotly. “Give me water and I die.”
The answer was obvious. “Fire,” Luka said quietly, and the Fire Bug grew agitated. “Don’t say that!” it buzzed. “If you go shouting fire at...
“Happy endings are much rarer in stories, and also in life, than most people...”
– Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie (via doubtingbones)
“…Birds are the greatest travelers of all.”
– The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie (via fourfootten)
“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via lechatbotte)
Books are not banned because they are inherently dangerous, or actually malicious, or even purposefully damning. Books like those are already avoided by those who do not agree with them. No, books are banned because there are people with power who fear the power of words. They fear the ideas and challenges put forth by such “dangerous” books. They hate the thought that their ideals...
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live...”
– William Faulkner (via stanielsbookclub)
“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost...”
– Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle)
Ray Gun Theater: Day Nine: →
rayguntheater:
A Movie You Know Practically the Whole Script Of.
(Or, “A Movie of Which You Know Practically the Whole Script.” Take your pick.)
You’ve Got Mail, Nora Ephron, 1998
Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear
This is probably the most quotable movie I have ever seen—there’s a quote for…
“Confession: I have read Pride and Prejudice about 200 times. I get lost in the...”
– Kathleen Kelly, “You’ve Got Mail” (via lacecupcakes)
“The odd thing about this form of communication is that you’re more likely to...”
– You’ve Got Mail (via perksofbeinglilymoon)
