James M. Barrie

Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.

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

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

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

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

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

She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

Because you see 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.

Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

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.

You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.