...all of us would laugh and cry over a book about such an interesting subject as ourselves.

It is ever thus with women: their first deliberate act is to make their husbands helpless. There are few men happily married who can knock in a nail.

...the artistic instinct hungers for recognition.

...the well-nigh unbearable sadness which comes into the face of dogs is because they cannot say Thank you to their masters.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

He [Peter Pan] was usually very happy and gay, and the reason was that Solomon had kept his promise and taught him many of the bird ways. To be easily pleased, for instance, and always to be really doing something, and to think that whatever he was doing was a thing of importance.

I am a curious person to attach oneself to, Paterson; don't you see that even David often smiles at me when he thinks he is unobserved.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.

It is a blessing that he did not know, otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

But how strange for parents, when they hurry into the Gardens at the opening of the gates looking for their lost one, to find the sweetest little tombstone instead. I do hope that Peter is not too ready with his spade. It is all rather sad.

...if you leap into each other's arms it is a fairy wedding.

...we who have made the great mistake, how differently we should all act at the second chance. But Solomon was right; there is no second chance, not for most of us. When we reach the window it is Lock-out Time. The iron bars are up for life.