January 18, 2004

  • "If you shut your eyes . . . you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colors suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colors become so vivid that with just another squeeze they must go on fire" (Barrie, 101)

    "He was frightfully happy." (Barrie, 165)

    "So, Pan, this is all your doing?" "Ay, James Hook, it is all my doing" (Barrie, 187)

    "We can't both have her, lady" (Barrie, 201)

    "He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be forever barred." (Barrie, 204)

    Well now I know why I can't fly. "It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly." (Barrie 214)