“Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.”
“And you, fallen Wendy, eviscerated by the eternal recurrence of it all, hear Peter snarl at you for growing guilty and big and old...”
“Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.’p46”
“. . . I love the school uniform. You have great legs.""Shut up!" I gasped. "I thought you were an old man!""Old soul. Young man. Big difference. . . ”
“Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.”
“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.”