When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl. – James Barrie
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. – James Barrie
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. – James Barrie
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? – James Barrie
This is not simply a story about a frog and a prince. A story about a frog would be biological. A story about a prince would be historical. But a story about a frog-prince is magical, and therein lies all the difference. – Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Child