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"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust." [Peter Pan]

“Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.” [Peter Pan]

"Build a house?" exclaimed John.
"For the wendy," said Curly.
"For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!"
"That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants." [Peter Pan]

“Courage is the thing; all goes if courage goes.”

“Do you want an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?” [Peter Pan]

“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”

“God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.”

"If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!" [Peter Pan]

“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”

"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

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

“It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?”

“Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”

“Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.”

"Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting."

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”

"On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more."

"Pan, who and what art thou?" [Hook] cried huskily.

"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg." [Peter Pan]

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

"'So, Pan,' said Hook at last, 'this is all your doing.'
'Ay, James Hook,' came the stern answer, 'it is all my doing.'
'Proud and insolent youth,' said Hook, 'prepare to meet thy doom.'
'Dark and sinister man,' Peter answered, 'have at thee.'"  [Peter Pan]

“Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.”

“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything; they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them by something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it is.”  [Peter Pan]

"The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.'" [Peter Pan]

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”

“The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.”

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

"There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be forever barred." [Peter Pan]

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” [Peter Pan]

“We are all failures--at least, the best of us are.”

“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”

"‘Wendy,’ Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, ‘Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.’" [Peter Pan]

“What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?”

“What is genius?- It is the power to be a boy again at will.”

“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.”  [Peter Pan]

"You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always think of you." [Peter Pan]