To die will be an awfully big adventure.

I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.

A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

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.