For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not f….

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air..

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

I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying..

A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in..

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks ….

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him..

Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silen….

This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminat….

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?.

Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys..

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

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing..

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England..

That fiend!" Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand….

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things..

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!.

Oh, the cleverness of me!.

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow.

Some of my plays peter out and some pan out..

There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innum….