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

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

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.

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.