After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.

She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

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.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.

Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.