02UndatedYou know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
03UndatedIf 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.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
05UndatedThe life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
06UndatedThe reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
08UndatedWhen 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 / quote ↗
09UndatedThe secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
10UndatedThe door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
11UndatedPeter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. 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 / quote ↗
12UndatedWhen she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
14UndatedDavid tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
15UndatedDreams 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 / quote ↗
16UndatedBuild 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.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
17UndatedNothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
19UndatedThe moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
20UndatedFairies 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 / quote ↗
21UndatedShe asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
22UndatedThe last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
23UndatedIt 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.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗
24UndatedPeter 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.J.M. Barrie / quote ↗