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— Фламинго кусаются не хуже горчицы. А мораль отсюда такова: это птицы одного полёта!

Покончив с этим, она обернулась к Соне и снова спросила: — Почему они жили под ключом? Соня подумала немного и сказала: — Чтобы сироп к ним капал сверху. Это был сиропный ключ.

Кому нужна голова без плечей?

I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!

"Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly."

'I forget them after I kill them,' he replied carelessly.

...when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are."

Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form.

This inscrutable man never felt more alone than when surrounded by his dogs [pirates]. They were socially inferior to him.

Peter had many tragedies, but he had forgotten them all.

The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to him make-believe and true were exactly the same thing.

...sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

И зачем я столько выпила? Надо было только капельку!

Увы, мысли были совершенно правильные, но несколько запоздалые

Сразу отправимся на встречу приключениям или сперва выпьем чаю?