She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it.

Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in faeries.

~J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan


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Summer Nights

What child unable to sleep on a warm summer night hasn't thought he saw Peter Pan's sailing ship in the sky? I will teach you how to see that ship.

~Roberto Cotroneo, When a Child on a Summer Morning

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Neverland

"On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more."

-Peter Pan

Sir James Matthew Barrie

Never-Land

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

~J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan