J. M. Barrie: Doing

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“"Why can't you fly now, mother?"
"Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way."
"Why do they forget the way?"
"Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly."”

J. M. Barrie book Peter Pan

Source: Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 17

“Peter flung out his arms. There were no children there, and it was night time; but he addressed all who might be dreaming of the Neverland, and who were therefore nearer to him than you think: boys and girls in their nighties, and naked papooses in their baskets hung from trees.
"Do you believe?"”

J. M. Barrie book Peter Pan

he cried.
Source: Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 13

“The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.”

The Contemporary Review (1891)

“Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

J. M. Barrie book The Little White Bird

Source: The Little White Bird (1902), Ch. 14

“I do loathe explanations.”

J. M. Barrie My Lady Nicotine

My Lady Nicotine (1890) ch. 16

“Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.”

J. M. Barrie book Peter Pan

Act I
Peter Pan (1904)