Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.

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

Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown

Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.

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.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.