"To Live would be an awfully big adventure"
— 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

""Chasing stars and loose their shadow,
Peter Pan and Wendy turned out fine,
So won't you fly with me?"
— Jonas Brothers

"Forget them, wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again. "
— Peter pan

"She asked where he lived.

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

"To die would be an awfully big adventure."
— 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

"I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking."
— Geraldine McCaughrean (Peter Pan in Scarlet)

"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)

"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."
— William S. Burroughs

"Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."
— 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. "
— James M. Barrie

"Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time..."
— J.M. Barrie

""But where do you live mostly now?"
"With the lost boys."
"Who are they?"
"They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain."
"What fun it must be!"
"Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship."
"Are none of the others girls?"
"Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.""
— 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

"Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night-lights. "
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Of Peter himself you must make what you will. Perhaps he was a little boy who died young, and this is how the author conceived his subsequent adventures. Perhaps he was a boy who was never born at all -- a boy whom some people longed for, but who never came. It may be that those people hear him at the window more clearly than the children do.
"
— --The London Times

"[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland.

In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself."
— Geraldine McCaughrean (Peter Pan in Scarlet)

"Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of course, they had a nurse. As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her. She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses. She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the neverland had again woke to life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
In his absence things are usually quiet on the island. The fairies take an hour longer in the morning, the beasts attend their young, the redskins feed heavily for six days and nights, and when pirates and lost boys meet they merely bite their thumbs at each other."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)