I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!

It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can’t do it on windy days because then you are not there, but the fallen leaves do it instead of you. There is almost nothing...

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

POLICEMAN. Good luck. (She finds it easiest just to nod in reply) I wish I was a Prince.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.

I’m not young enough to know everything.

Every time a child says ‘I don’t believe in fairies’ there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. “Greeting, boys,” he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence.He frowned.”I am back,” he said hotly, “why do you not...

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

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.

He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers...

I wasn’t crying about mothers,” he said rather indignantly. “I was crying because I can’t get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn’t crying.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and...

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the...

The last thing he ever said to me was, ‘Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention...