Quotes By Author: J.M. Barrie

“Don’t you understand? You mean more to me that anything in this entire world.”

“When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.”

“The door’, replied Maimie, ‘will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.”

“Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

“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.”

“I’m not young enough to know everything.”

“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”

“You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”