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“A moment after the fairy’s entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.” (Peter Pan Quotes)
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“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.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“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.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“I suppose it’s like the ticking crocodile, isn’t it? Time is chasing after all of us.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“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.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for the next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day.” (Peter Pan Quotes)
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“Never is an awfully long time.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“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.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“On these magic shores children at play are forever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“Stars are beautiful, but they may 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. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be forever barred.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“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.” (Peter Pan Quotes)
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
“You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.”
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
