Quotes from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“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, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“For otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and
the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“Ah, Peter, we who have made the great mistake, how differently we should all act at the second chance. But Solomon was right; there is no second chance, not for most of us. When we reach the window it is lock-out time. The iron bars are up for life.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“Thus, when you cry out, 'Greedy! Greedy!' to the bird that flies
away with the big crust, you know now that you ought not to do this, for he is very likely taking it to Peter
Pan.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“he decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed
to know a good deal.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“You expected too much of me’ I told him, and he bowed his head. ‘I don’t know where you brought your grand ideas of men and women from. I don’t want to know’ I added hastily. But I must have been a prettier word that this’ I said: ‘are you quite sure that you were wise in leaving it?”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“Nosotros también hemos estado allí y aún recordamos el murmullo de las olas, aunque no volveremos a desembarcar jamás.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“We were having another look among the bushes for David's lost worsted ball, and instead of the ball we found a lovely nest made of the worsted, and containing four eggs, with scratches on them very like David's handwriting, so we think they must have been the mother's love-letters to the little ones inside.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“I can give you the power to fly to her house," the Queen said, "but I can't open the door for you.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“Peter became very clever at helping the birds to build their nests; soon he could build better than a wood-pigeon, and nearly as well as a blackbird, though never did he satisfy the finches, and he made nice little water-troughs near the nests and dug up worms for the young ones with his fingers. He also became very learned in bird-lore, and knew an east wind from a west wind by its smell, and he could see the grass growing and hear the insects walking about inside the tree-trunks.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“El modo en el que le otorgaron el poder de volar fue este: todas le hicieron cosquillas en los hombros y pronto sintió un divertido cosquilleo en esa parte, y entonces se alzó más y más alto y salió volando fuera de los jardines y sobre los tejados de las casas.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“perhaps we could all fly if we were as dead-confident-sure of our capacity to do it as was bold Peter Pan that evening”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

About the author

Popular quotes

“Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, quote from Veterans of the Psychic Wars

“For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.”
― René Descartes, quote from Meditations on First Philosophy

“I believed him because the truth is never hard to recognize. Nothing is ever quite so drab and repetitious and forlorn and ludicrous as truth.”
― Budd Schulberg, quote from What Makes Sammy Run?

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes the dullness came to the fore with a strange and insistent ache which he would entertain briefly, but learn to keep at bay. Mostly, however, it was the contentment he entertained; the slow ease and the silence could, once night had fallen, fill him with a happiness that nothing, no society nor the company of any individual, no glamour or glitter, could equal.”
― Colm Tóibín, quote from The Master

“I thought he had taken my soul, said Rev.

I thought he took mine, too. But no one can. It's just been sleeping.”
― Francesca Lia Block, quote from The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

Interesting books

About BookQuoters

BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.

We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.

Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.