"You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end."
"I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, 'Oh, why can’t you remain like this forever!'"
"It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness."
"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."
"Every time a child says, 'I don’t believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
"Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them."
"Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough."
"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."
"Girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams."
"All you need is faith, trust, and a little bit of pixie dust."
"Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting."
"Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever."
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
"Once you fitted, you drew in your breath at the top, and down you went at exactly the right speed, while to ascend you drew in and let out alternately, and so wriggled up."
"But you simply must fit, and Peter measures you for your tree as carefully as for a suit of clothes: the only difference being that the clothes are made to fit you, while you have to be made to fit the tree."
"Once you fit, great care must be taken to go on fitting, and this, as Wendy was to discover to her delight, keeps a whole family in perfect condition."
"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."
"It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days; but always if they wanted to do anything special they said this was Saturday night, and then they did it."
"Every time you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them off vindictively as fast as possible."
"If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear."
"Thus children are ever ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones."
"I just want always to be a little boy and to have fun."
"To surprise redskins fairly is beyond the wit of the white man."
"They left nothing undone that was consistent with the reputation of their tribe."
"The noble savage must never express surprise in the presence of the white."
"I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg."
"All children know this about mothers, and despise them for it."
"We hope our sons will die like English gentlemen."
"It was Peter’s terrible oath had boarded the ship."
"Peter had already lashed himself to the wheel."
"So long as mothers are like this their children will take advantage of them; and they may lay to that."
"We are beginning to know Mrs. Darling by this time, and may be sure that she would upbraid us for depriving the children of their little pleasure."
"Of course this was a pity; but whatever Mr. Darling did he had to do in excess, otherwise he soon gave up doing it."
"It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent."
"But there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be forever barred."
"And there never was a more humble man than the once proud George Darling, as he sat in the kennel of an evening talking with his wife of their children and all their pretty ways."
"It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly."
"Every morning the kennel was carried with Mr. Darling in it to a cab, which conveyed him to his office, and he returned home in the same way at six."
"You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still."
"He was exactly the same as ever, and Wendy saw at once that he still had all his first teeth."