Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.

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.

Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.