One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams.
Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be “sorry” and admiration of each other’s play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown.
Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.
There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.
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.
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?
Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.
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...
When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
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.
Peter 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.
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.