They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls.

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

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.

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. Peter, you see, just said anything that came into his head.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.