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

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.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

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.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.