She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.

She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

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.

I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.