J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan Quotes

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

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

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

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

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

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

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also.

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.

He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.

He was top-heavy with conceit.

Good form without knowing it is the best form of all.

Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily."I'm youth, I'm joy, " Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

I can't come, ' she said apologetically, 'I have forgotten how to fly.''I'll soon teach you again.''O Peter, don't waste the fairy dust on me.

See, " he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.

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

You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.

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.

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.