James M. Barrie Quotes
There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.
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.
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.
Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.
Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.
They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.
What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.
The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.
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.
After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.
Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown
I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.
Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.
...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.
They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.
Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.
All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.
He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.
See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them
Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.
In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.
