“I am youth. I am joy. I am freedom!” said Peter Pan.” JoyFantasyChildhoodYouthChildlikePeter PanChildlike WonderBarrie Author:J.M. Barrie
“I seem to remember carrying him that evening to the window with uncommon tenderness (following the setting sun that was to take him away), and telling him with not unnatural bitterness that he had got to leave me because another child was in need of all his pretty things; and as the sun, his true father, lapt him in its dancing arms, he sent his love to a lady of long ago whom he called by the sweetest of names, not knowing in his innocence that the little white birds are the birds that never have a mother. I wished (so had the phantasy of Timothy taken possession of me) that before he went he could have played once in the Kensington Gardens, and have ridden on the fallen trees, calling gloriously to me to look; that he could have sailed on paper-galleon on the Round Pond; fain would I have had him chase one hoop a little way down the laughing avenues of childhood, where memory tells us we run but once, on a long summer-day, emerging at the other end as men and women with all the fun to pay for; and I think (thus fancy wantons with me in these desolate champers) he knew my longings, and said with a boy-like flush that the reason he never did these things was not that he was afraid, for he would have loved to do them all, but because he was not quite like other boys; and, so saying, he let go my finger and faded from before my eyes into another and olden ether; but I shall ever hold that had he been quite like the other boys there would have been none braver than my Timothy” ChildrenFantasyGrowing UpChildhoodYouthParents Book:The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens Source: The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens
“But, my dear madam, it is ten days till Thursday week; so that by telling you what's what, we can save you ten days of unhappiness." "Yes, but at what a cost! By depriving the children of ten minutes of delight." "Oh, if you look at it in that way!" "What other way is there in which to look at it?” LoveChildhoodMotherhoodGenerosityParenthoodMothersPeter PanMothers Love Book:Peter Pan Source: Peter Pan
“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.” ChildhoodPunishment Author:J.M. Barrie