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

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

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

This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

I am not young enough to know everything.

She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.