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 o… - J.M. Barrie

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

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.

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.

They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.