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

— J.M. Barrie

Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs.

— J.M. Barrie

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

— J.M. Barrie

Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.

— J.M. Barrie

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

— J.M. Barrie

Of course the Neverland's vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents...

— J.M. Barrie

Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.

— J.M. Barrie

Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.

— J.M. Barrie

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

— J.M. Barrie

Pan, who and what art thou?" he 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.

— J.M. Barrie