J.M. Barrie

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage

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,__or long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face."Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee.

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Ambition: it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

He peeped in again to see why the music had stopped, and now he saw that Mrs. Darling had laid her head on the box, and that two tears were sitting on her eyes.'She wants me to unbar the window,' thought Peter, 'but I won't, not I!'He peeped again, and the tears were still there, or another two had taken their place.'She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy.The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.

...and as she was crossing to the day-nursery he added thoughtlessly, 'And shut that window. I feel a draught.' 'O George, never ask me to do that. The window must always be left open for them, always, always.

I can't come,' she said apologetically, 'I have forgotten how to fly.''I'll soon teach you again.''O Peter, don't waste the fairy dust on me.

Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

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

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

She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

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

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That__ where I__l always love you. That__ where I__l be waiting.

Build a house?" exclaimed John."For the Wendy," said Curly."For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!""That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

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