“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.”

“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.”

“Twin, I think you should not have dreamt that, for I didn't, and Peter may say we oughtn't to dream differently, being twins, you know.”

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

“Oh, the cleverness of me!”

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

“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.”