"To love would 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)

"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
— J.M. Barrie

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"‘Wendy,’ Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, ‘Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.’"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always think of you."
— J.M. Barrie

"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)

"Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. "
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

""The 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 (Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens)

"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."
— J.M. Barrie

"All children, except one, grow up."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"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."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"
— J.M. Barrie

"'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,' Peter answered, 'have at thee.'"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!"
— 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. "
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"'Pan, who and what art though?' 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.'"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
— J.M. Barrie

"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."
— J.M. Barrie

"All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!"
— J.M. Barrie

""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.""
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"To live will be a great adventure."
— 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)

"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.
"
— 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 for ever barred."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
"
— J.M. Barrie

"One girl is worth more use than 20 boys."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Why can't you fly now, mother?"
"Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way."
"Why do they forget the way?"
"Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly."
— J.M. Barrie

"She asked where he lived.

'Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.'"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"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."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"The 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

"I'm not young enough to know everything."
— J.M. Barrie

"Boy, why are you crying?"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"'You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes?
Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"To die would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"'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.'"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses."
— J.M. Barrie

"There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"The 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

"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 other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied. The children waited for her cry of joy, but it did not come. She saw them, but she did not believe they were there. You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"'Peter,' she asked, trying to speak firmly, 'what are your exact feelings for me?'
'Those of a devoted son, Wendy.'
'I thought so,' she said, and went and sat by herself at the extreme end of the room.
'You are so queer,' he said, frankly puzzled, 'and Tiger Lily is just the same. There is something she wants to be to me, but she says it is not my mother.'
'No, indeed, it is not,' Wendy replied with frightful emphasis."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"To live would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about. And that was the beginning of fairies. So there ought to be a fairy for every boy and girl."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan & Plays)

"I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan and Wendy)

"On these magic shores children at play are for ever 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)