Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

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.

Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures.

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

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.