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

— J.M. Barrie

Good form without knowing it is the best form of all.

— J.M. Barrie

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

— J.M. Barrie

He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also.

— J.M. Barrie

He peeped in again to see why the music had stopped, and now he saw that Mrs. Darling had laid her head on the box, and that two tears were sitting on her eyes.' She wants me to unbar the window,' thought Peter, 'but I won't, not I!' He peeped again, and the tears were still there, or another two had taken their place.' She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.

— J.M. Barrie

He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.

— J.M. Barrie

He was top-heavy with conceit.

— J.M. Barrie

I can't come,' she said apologetically, 'I have forgotten how to fly.'' I'll soon teach you again.'' O Peter, don't waste the fairy dust on me.

— J.M. Barrie

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

— J.M. Barrie

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.

— J.M. Barrie