J.M. Barrie Quotes

“Never is an awfully long time.”

“All children, except one, grow up.”

“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.”

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

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

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

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

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

“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”

“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.”

“To live will be an awfully big adventure.”

“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.”

“Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning. ”

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

“Oh, the cleverness of me!”

“I suppose it’s like the ticking crocodile, isn’t it? Time is chasing after all of us.”

“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 taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?”

“Just always be waiting for me.”

“Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?” Nothing, precious,” she said; “they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.”

“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”

“Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”

“All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.”

“Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.”

“Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you’ll never, never have to worry about grown up things again. Never is an awfully long time.”

“Do you know,” Peter asked, “why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.”

“Boy, why are you crying?”

″...for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”

“He thought he had the most splendid time in the Gardens, and to think you have it is almost quite as good as really to have it.”

“Her fits of passion, which are awful to behold, and are usually called teething, are no such thing; they are her natural exasperation, because we don’t understand her, though she is talking an intelligible language. She is talking fairy.”

“Fairies never say, ‘We feel happy’: what they say is, ‘We feel dancey.‘”

“Twice he came back from the window, wanting to kiss his mother, but he feared the delight of it might waken her...”

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

″‘I can give you the power to fly to her house,’ the Queen said, ‘but I can’t open the door for you.‘”

″‘And if you want very much to give me a kiss’, Maimie said, ‘you can do it.’ Very reluctantly Peter began to take the thimble off his finger. He thought she wanted it back. ‘I don’t mean a kiss,’ she said hurriedly, ‘I mean a thimble’. ‘What’s that?’ Peter asked. ‘It’s like this,’ she said, and kissed him.”

″‘The door’, replied Maimie, ‘will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.‘”

“perhaps we could all fly if we were as dead-confident-sure of our capacity to do it as was bold Peter Pan that evening.”