James M. Barrie Quotes about Growing Up

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Why can't you fly now, mother? Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow 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

Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow 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.

James M. Barrie

Mother, Growing Up, Gay

James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.152, Jazzybee Verlag

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

James M. Barrie

Change, Growing Up, Mean

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

James M. Barrie

Growing Up, Pimples, Grew Up

"Fictional character: Captain Hook". "Peter Pan", 2003.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

James M. Barrie

Mother, Children, Growing Up

James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.1, 谷月社

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

James M. Barrie

Girl, Growing Up, Sorry

James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.131, 谷月社

All children, except one, grow up.

James M. Barrie

Children, Growing Up, Neverland

Peter and Wendy ch. 1 (1911)