Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.

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.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

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

I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.