Neden artık uçamıyorsun, anne?
-Çünkü artık büyüdüm, bir tanem. İnsanlar büyüdüklerinde uçmayı unuturlar.
Neden unuturlar peki?
-Çünkü artık neşeli, masum ve duygusuz değillerdir. Yalnızca neşeli, masum olanlar uçabilir.
"Why can't you fly now, mother?"
"Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grown 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."
You see, Wendy, 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.
Dünyanın en kalpsiz yaratıkları ama bir o kadar da sempatik olan çocuklar gibi başımızı alıp gideriz, bencilce keyfimize bakarız ve özel ilgi istediğimizde, beş kardeşi yiyeceğimiz yerde ödüllendirileceğimizi düşünerek geri döneriz.
Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards to be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness.