J.M. Barrie Quotes

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.

If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.

Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

"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.

She asked where he lived.

Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

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.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.