“He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.”

“After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.”

“Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.”

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

“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.”

“Wendy, ein Mädchen ist mehr wert als zwanzig Jungen.”

“Oh, the cleverness of me!”