J.M. Barrie Quotes

I am the best there ever was!

"You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air."

But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

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

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others

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

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

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied. The children waited for her cry of joy, but it did not come. She saw them, but she did not believe they were there. 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.

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls...

"For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face.
"So, Pan," said Hook at last, "this is all your doing."
"Ay, James Hook," came the stern answer, "it is all my doing."
"Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom."
"Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee.

"See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life."