Neverland Quotes

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night-lights. ”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share.
He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening.
It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“I'll hold you in my heart, until I can hold you in my arms.”
― JM Barrie, Peter Pan: J M Barrie illustrated by Steve Hutton

“You were created for more than to bear the weight of your shadows- but you have to choose to no longer let them define you. You have to choose to let the light shine through the shattered pieces.” – Tiger Lilly”
― Kara Swanson, Dust

“Forget them Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“NEVERLAND:The imaginary island home of Peter Pan and the lost boys. A place where you never grow up. Michael Jackson’s former retreat. An accurate description of the 21st century.”
― Daniel Prokop, Leaving Neverland: Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations

“Through the clamor and seething of battle, she found her true north: Milori.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“Conviction felt like sunlight, illuminating her from within. Maybe her heart had never really steered her wrong.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“Peter sank. "I'd give anything to see time.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“Don't you understand? You mean more to me that anything in this entire world.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Neverland is hers, it is precious; she will not give it to anyone to use as a weapon against her. It’s enough that Wendy knows, deep in her heart, that if she’d jumped, the sky would never let her fall.”
― A.C. Wise, Wendy, Darling

“Ein tiefer Graben unweltlicher Herkunft schien sie und ihn in ein Nirgendland einzuschließen.”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

“He was struck by the feeling that they were the only two people alive in the world—that this was something beyond any magic or illusion or story Neverland could conjure. Something real.”
― Austin Chant, Peter Darling

“Whenever I would see a photo of Big Ben I would think of Peter Pan. Not necessarily a boy in green tights but someone who would [grab] my heart and my hand as he took me away to his N e v e r l a n d.”
― J.B. English, Fireflies

“And where do these legends come from?”

“You don’t really think that I was the first thing on the island, now do you?”

Wendy actually had thought that, because she had never written about anything existing before Peter. Perhaps a prequel was in order.”
― Lucy Gould, The Rescue

“I am the first Lost boy.
And I learned a long time ago:
If you wear wonder like a weapon,
the world won't notice when it wounds.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse

“Las Vegas was as real to me as Neverland, opulence built in the Mojave Desert by mobsters for sins I could not bring myself to commit. What business did I have in disgracing its doorstep?”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“His eyes shown as brightly as if they were fairies themselves, and his face held a delicate balance of youth and knowledge for he had an abundance of both. His tongue sat in the corner of his mouth, gripped between his teeth as he focused on a fairy that was sprinting and tumbling across his fingertips.”
― C.S.R. Calloway, Lost: a Never novella

“I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all. I know young people look at me and think my youth seems so far away, but it's all around me, and you're all around me. Tiger Lily, do you think magic exists if it can be explained? I can explain why I loved you, I can explain the theory of evolution that tells me why mermaids live in Neverland and nowhere else. But it still feels magic.

The lost boys all stood at our wedding. Does it seem odd to you that they could have stood at a wedding that wasn't yours and mine? It does to me. and I'm sorry for it, and for a lot, and I also wouldn't change it.

It is so quiet here. Even with all the trains and the streets and the people. It's nothing like the jungle. The boys have grown. Everything has grown. Do you think you will ever grow? I hope not. I like to think that even if I change and fade away, some other people won't.

I like to think that one day after I die, at least one small particle of me - of all the particles that will spread everywhere - will float all the way to Neverland, and be part of a flower or something like that, like that poet said, the one that your Tik Tok loved. I like to think that nothing's final, and that everyone gets to be together even when it looks like they don't, that it all works out even when all the evidence seems to say something else, that you and I are always young in the woods, and that I'll see you sometime again, even if it's not with any kind of eyes I know of or understand. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the way things go after all - that all things end happy. Even for you and Tik Tok. and for you and me.

Always,
Ircham

― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily”
― Ircham

“I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all. I know young people look at me and think my youth seems so far away, but it's all around me, and you're all around me. Tiger Lily, do you think magic exists if it can be explained? I can explain why I loved you, I can explain the theory of evolution that tells me why mermaids live in Neverland and nowhere else. But it still feels magic.

The lost boys all stood at our wedding. Does it seem odd to you that they could have stood at a wedding that wasn't yours and mine? It does to me. and I'm sorry for it, and for a lot, and I also wouldn't change it.

It is so quiet here. Even with all the trains and the streets and the people. It's nothing like the jungle. The boys have grown. Everything has grown. Do you think you will ever grow? I hope not. I like to think that even if I change and fade away, some other people won't.

I like to think that one day after I die, at least one small particle of me - of all the particles that will spread everywhere - will float all the way to Neverland, and be part of a flower or something like that, like that poet said, the one that your Tik Tok loved. I like to think that nothing's final, and that everyone gets to be together even when it looks like they don't, that it all works out even when all the evidence seems to say something else, that you and I are always young in the woods, and that I'll see you sometime again, even if it's not with any kind of eyes I know of or understand. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the way things go after all - that all things end happy. Even for you and Tik Tok. and for you and me.

Always,
Ircham

― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily”
― chambucket

“Wendy drifted off, dreaming of a warped Neverland where no one could fly, pirates were just as rotted on the outside as they were on the inside, mermaids were out for blood, and a certain handsome boy was dying.”
― Lucy Gould, The Rescue

“Dressing like that creates the wrong idea.”

“Oh really?” Wendy narrowed her eyes; John was moving into dangerous territory. “I wasn’t aware that wearing the same shirt you’re wearing was revolutionary.”

“It’s a man’s shirt, Wendy.”

Wendy scoffed. “Surprisingly, I’m aware of that. This was all I could find, so unless you want me to go to dinner naked, I suggest you come to terms with my shirt.”
― Lucy Gould, The Rescue

“No," said James with a smile. "But I am the pirate from my story.”
― Serena Valentino, Never, Never

“For the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs. It would be an easy map if that were all; but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative... and either these are part of the island, or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“I don't remember falling—
just the hush before it.
Like a breath I meant to keep
but let go by accident.
Like closing my eyes mid-sentence
and forgetting the word for
stay.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse

“One day, you will feel what it means to miss someone
so hard you unravel. To feel them in places that never felt haunted before. I hope it haunts you the way it haunts me.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse

“You took the part of him
that still believed
in something more than pain—
and dressed it up in pixie dust
so you could pretend
you gave him peace.

You don't get to twist that into legend.
You don't get to wrap your hunger
in fairy dust and dusk
and call it rescue.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse

“He left us—
like broken toys
with sharp edges
and no purpose.

Now we stitch sails
from the skin of forgotten boys.
We sharpen our grief on coral reefs
and spit prayers into bottles
no one will open.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse