Wendy: Where do you live?
Peter: Second to the right, and then straight on till morning.
Wendy: They put that on the letters?
Peter: Don’t get any letters.
Wendy: But your mother gets letters.
Peter: Don’t have a mother.
Wendy: No wonder you were crying.
Peter: I wasn’t crying about mothers. I was crying because I can’t get this shadow to stick. And I wasn’t crying.The magic of JM Barrie's 'Peter Pan' is captured in this delightful illustration by Chas Buchel, 1904
Wendy: I think you have, Peter. And I daresay you’ve felt it yourself. For something… or… someone?
Peter: Never. Even the sound of it offends me.
[Wendy tries to touch his face, and he jumps away]
Peter: Why do you have to spoil everything? We have fun, don’t we? I taught you to fly and to fight. What more could there be?
Wendy: There is so much more.
Peter: What? What else is there?
Wendy: I don’t know. I guess it becomes clearer when you grow up.
Peter: Well, I will not grow up. You cannot make me!
This day celebrates the 150th anniversary of James Matthew Barrie’s birth at Lilybank, Kirriemuir in the region of Angus, Scotland. Read more »
