Boy, why are you crying?

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.

When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

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.