Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

That fiend!" Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.