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Peter Pan quotes
15 quotes from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #16 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
It was saying, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
All children, except one, grow up.
“Second to the right,” said Peter, “and then straight on till morning.”
— Peter · III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!
“You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
— Spoken by a character · III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!
“Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.”
— Spoken by a character · III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!
“You just think lovely wonderful thoughts,” Peter explained, “and they lift you up in the air.”
— Spoken by a character · III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!
“I don’t want ever to be a man,” he said with passion. “I want always to be a little boy and to have fun. So I ran away to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time among the fairies.”
— Spoken by a character · III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!
Do you know,” Peter asked “why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.
— Peter · III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!
‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
— Spoken by a character · III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!
Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed.
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
“Why can’t you fly now, mother?”
“Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way.”
“Why do they forget the way?”
“Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.”
— Spoken by a character · XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.
“Bad form,” he cried jeeringly, and went content to the crocodile.
— Spoken by a character · XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”
“The last thing he ever said to me was, ‘Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.’”
— Spoken by a character · XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP