The Atlas

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”

“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.”

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”

“Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.”

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”

“God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.”

“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.”

“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”

“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.”

“Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”

“The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.”

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”

“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”

“When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.”