J.M. Barrie Quotes

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

All children, except one, grow up.

"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.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

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

You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

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.

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

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.

I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!

Peter had seen many tragedies, but he had forgotten them all.

It was then that Hook bit him.
Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. 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. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.