# Peter Pan  Author:: J.M. Barrie ## Highlights > 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. ([Location 352](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00C9O75QM&location=352)) > Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner. ([Location 358](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00C9O75QM&location=358)) > He got all of her, except the innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying for the kiss. ([Location 363](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00C9O75QM&location=363)) > Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children's minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. ([Location 422](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00C9O75QM&location=422)) > When you wake in the morning, the naughtinesses and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on. ([Location 427](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00C9O75QM&location=427)) ## New highlights added August 25, 2023 at 2:08 PM > If you or I or Wendy had been there we should have seen that he was very like Mrs. Darling's kiss. He was a lovely boy, clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees; but the most entrancing thing about him was that he had all his first teeth. When he saw she was a grown-up, he gnashed the little pearls at her. ([Location 532](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00C9O75QM&location=532)) --- Title: Peter Pan Author: J.M. Barrie Tags: readwise, books date: 2024-01-30 --- # Peter Pan  Author:: J.M. Barrie ## AI-Generated Summary None ## Highlights > 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. ([Location 352](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00C9O75QM&location=352)) > Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner. ([Location 358](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00C9O75QM&location=358)) > He got all of her, except the innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying for the kiss. ([Location 363](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00C9O75QM&location=363)) > Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children's minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. ([Location 422](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00C9O75QM&location=422)) > When you wake in the morning, the naughtinesses and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on. ([Location 427](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00C9O75QM&location=427)) > If you or I or Wendy had been there we should have seen that he was very like Mrs. Darling's kiss. He was a lovely boy, clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees; but the most entrancing thing about him was that he had all his first teeth. When he saw she was a grown-up, he gnashed the little pearls at her. ([Location 532](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00C9O75QM&location=532))