Herbert Brenon,
Peter Pan
(1924)
“ I always want to be a little boy and to have fun." "So I ran away and lived a long time among the fairies." "Peter! You know fairies?" "Yes, but they're nearly all dead now." "You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a million pieces and they all went skipping about—" "—and that was the beginning of fairies." "But children know such a lot nowadays—" "—and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies', there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead." ”
