Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Quotes

″...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.”

“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.”

″‘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.”

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

“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.‘”

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

″‘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.”