All children, except one, grow up.
So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.
We are all failures – at least the best of us are.
One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.
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.
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.
If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?
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.
I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!
I suppose it’s like the ticking crocodile, isn’t it? Time is chasing after all of us.
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.
Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.