Herbert Brenon

Herbert Brenon

Peter Pan (1924)

Summary

Portrait of Herbert Brenon 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."
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Portrait of Herbert Brenon Herbert Brenon Peter Pan (1924)

Peter, you may give me a kiss."
"I don't mean a kiss. I mean a thimble—like this."
"Tink says she will pull your hair every time you give me a thimble."
"She said, 'You silly ass'. She's quite a common little fairy, you know—"
"I'm going to the Never Never Land, to the Lost Boys—they are always afraid of pirates when I'm away."
"The Lost Boys are the children who fall out of their perambulators when their nurses aren't looking."
"I'm captain!"
"Oh, Wendy, come and be our mother!"
"I'll teach you to fly and you will tell us stories—"
"—and darn our socks and tuck us in at night."
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Portrait of Herbert Brenon Herbert Brenon Peter Pan (1924)

The underground home of the Lost Boys in the Never Never Land.
"Peter Pan is the sun. He is the moon. He is the stars. Us no let pirates hurt li'l boys."
"What Peter Pan give Tiger Lily for guarding him?"
"Wendy, I'm too big for a cradle."
"You are smallest—and a cradle is such a homey thing to have about the house."
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