Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defense, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home

— J.M. Barrie

Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremor 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.

— J.M. Barrie

Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

— J.M. Barrie

POLICEMAN. Good luck. (She finds it the easiest just to nod in reply) I wish I was a Prince.

— J.M. Barrie

See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.

— J.M. Barrie

She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

— J.M. Barrie

She says she glories in being abandoned

— J.M. Barrie

‎She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

— J.M. Barrie

The door', replied Mamie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

— J.M. Barrie

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

— J.M. Barrie