Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow