Touchstone #2

The entire book of Peter Pan could be one of my touchstones, but I'll only select a few passages.

"She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner."

"Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is apunishment put on them for some thing they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder."