“There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.”

“He was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second. He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland, that everytime you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them of vindictively as fast as possible.”

“Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.”

“Second to the right, and straight on till morning."That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland”

“He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.”

“Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again. Never is an awfully long time.”

“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.”