James M. Barrie Long Quotations

Never is an awfully long time.

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.

Forever is a very long time Peter

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

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.

Life is a long lesson in humility.