378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

There were odd stories about him; as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened. She.

Boy,” she said courteously, “why are you crying?

Peter had seen many tragedies, but he had forgotten them all.

Her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts,” Peter explained, “and they lift you up in the air.

The way Mr. Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr. Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he got her.

At first Mrs. Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies. There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened.

If I were younger, I’d know more.

They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don’t know how dangerous ’tis to eat rich damp cake.