"To Live would be an awfully big adventure"
— Peter Pan

"Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature."
— Jasper Fforde

"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

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

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

"She asked where he lived.

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

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

"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

"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 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

"The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies. "
— Hermann Hesse

"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

"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

"Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.
-- Letter 8 to Heloise"
— Peter Abelard

"He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival."
— Gemma Malley (The Declaration)

"Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick."
— C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian)

""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)

"As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child."
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

"Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.
"
— Gemma Malley (The Declaration)

"When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it."
— Peter Sellers

"As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits"
— Peter Jennings

"Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required.
You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were loved.
"
— Gemma Malley (The Declaration)

""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 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

"To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self"
— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

"'I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter."
— Gemma Malley (The Declaration)

"[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)

"Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down"
— Stephen King (The Long Walk)

"In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space."
"
— Peter Kreeft

"If you love me, feed my sheep."
— Jesus

"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)

"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)

"No matter who they get to put stuff on their face, it ain’t us. You can take the mask off the Lone Ranger and put it on someone else, but it ain’t the Lone Ranger."
— Peter Criss

"My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working."
— Peter Fonda

""The girl; you have to save her."

"What girl?"

"The cheerleader. It's the only way to prevent it."

"Prevent what?"

"Everything. Listen to me. She must live. The painter, Isaac, go to him. He will know. When I call you, you must tell me where we meet. You told me many times how lost you felt before it all started. This is what you've been waiting for. Be the one we need.

"Wait!"

"Save the cheerleader, save the world."
"
— Future Hiro Peter

"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)