Peter / Wendy lines

Question 1

Tink: This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

Answer 1

I don’t know whether you have ever seen a map of a person’s mind.

Question 2

Wendy: You won’t forget me, Peter? Will you? Before spring cleaning time comes?

Answer 2

Doctors have tried to draw a map of a child’s mind. It is not only confused, but keeps going around all the time.

Question 3

Tink: …and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose.

Answer 3

It would be an easy map if that were all, but there’s also the first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework-

Question 4

(Everybody lists two “happy thoughts”) #1

Answer 4

-murders, hangings, demonstrative adjectives, chocolate pudding day, getting into braces, cash for pulling out your tooth…

Question 5

(Everybody lists two “happy thoughts”) #2

Answer 5

Neverlands vary a good deal. Wendy’s is a house of leaves deftly sewn together.

Question 6

Mrs Darling: Dear nightlights that protect my sleeping child, burn clear and steadfast tonight.

Answer 6

You too have been there; you can still hear the sound of the surf, though you shall land no more. (…)

Question 7

(though you shall land no more)

Answer 7

…Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. (…)

Question 8

(tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed.)

Answer 8

…When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very real, so there are night-lights. (…)

Question 9

(but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very real, so there are night-lights.)

Answer 9

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up.

Question 10

Mrs Darling: …but at last Wendy just got through, with mumps reduced to twelve six, and the two kinds of measles treated as one.

Answer 10

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. (…)

Question 11

(they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever.)

Answer 11

…It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. (…)

Question 12

(so long ago that no star now knows what it was.)

Answer 12

So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder. (…)

Question 13

(and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.)

Answer 13

…They are not really friendly to Peter, who had a mischievous way of stealing up behind them and trying to blow them out; but they are so fond of fun that they were on his side to-night, and anxious to get the grown-ups out of the way. (…)

Question 14

(they were on his side to-night, and anxious to get the grown-ups out of the way.)

Answer 14

…So as soon as the door of 27 closed on Mr. and Mrs. Darling, there was a commotion in the firmament, and the smallest of all the stars in the Milky Way cried out: “Now, Peter!”

Question 15

Wend: Don’t go Peter! I know such lots of stories.

Answer 15

Hello? Is somebody there? Who’s there? (etc.)

Question 16

Tiger Lily: Gotcha. You can’t escape.

Answer 16

Are you a pirate?

Question 17

Tiger Lily: No, I’m not a pirate. I’m a flower, a Tiger Lily. You’re not a pirate now, are you?

Answer 17

I’m lost. I’m a lost boy.

Question 18

Tiger Lily: I won’t hurt you.

Answer 18

I’m terrified of pirates when Peter is gone.

Question 19

Tiger Lily: Well, you’re safe now.

Answer 19

I dreamt last night that the prince found Cinderella. I’m dying to find out the end of the story.

Question 20

Tiger Lily: Who’s Cinderella?

Answer 20

From the story, something about shoes, the deep black lake, and mice with no eyes. We don’t have mothers, but Peter Pan comes back to tell us more of the stories.

Question 21

Tiger Lily: Oh I know Peter Pan. Are you one of the ones that fell from your crib? You’re safe now.

Answer 21

Peter’s gone away, and I’m frightfully anxious. The only thing I remember about my mother is that she often said to father, Oh how I wish I had a checkbook of my own. (…)

Question 22

(Oh how I wish I had a checkbook of my own.)

Answer 22

…I don’t know what a checkbook is, but I should just love to give my mother one.
Hello?
Tiger Lily?
Are you there?
Is someone… hello?

Question 23

Tink: …Unfortunately she could not fly so slowly as they, and so she had to go round and round them in a circle in which they moved as in a halo. Tinker Bell landed first.

Answer 23

He’s back? He’s BACK!
Peter! You came back! What happened?
Did the slipper fit someone, ya know? Did he find her?
Who’s here? Peter?

Question 24

Peter: Don’t as me. Ask our new mother. Wendy.

Answer 24

Our mother? At last. I’d like to get you your own checkbook.
Hello, I’m one of the lost boys, but you found us anyways.

Question 25

Wendy: ...You should have known it would end that way.

Answer 25

I should have, shouldn't I? Thank you, Wendy.

Question 26

Peter: You see, she is a lady. Here is the kiss she gave me.

Answer 26

I remember kisses, let me see it. Ay, that's a kiss alright. Build a house for her!

Question 27

Peter: To the lagoon at once.

Answer 27

(Mermaid) If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; (...)

Question 28

(a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness;)

Answer 28

...then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.

Question 29

(with another squeeze they must go on fire.)

Answer 29

...But just before they go on fire you see the lagoon. this is the nearest you ever get to it on the mainland, just one heavenly moment; if there could be two moments you might see the surf and hear the mermaids singing.

Question 30

Wendy: You can nap in the meanwhile. Now, that I'm your mother, I had better be strict about this.

Answer 30

(Mermaid) The most haunting time a which to see mermaids is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries.

Question 31

Wendy: I said did you hear something? Oh, should I wake Peter?

Answer 31

(Mermaid) I don't see why you would.

Question 32

Wendy: It wouldn't be very motherly to wake him.

Answer 32

(Mermaid) Welcome to Neverland.

Question 33

Hook: Perhaps we could all fly if we were as dead-confident-sure of our capacity to do as was bold Peter Pan that evening.

Answer 33

The reason there are bars on nursery windows and a tall fender by the fire is because very little people sometimes forget that they have no longer wings, and try to fly away through the window or up the chimney.

Question 34

Hook: ...and when she has called the roll, they all go out for a walk and never come back.

Answer 34

Aaaaaaaaaaanyways.

Question 35

Wendy: ...Goodnight, Tinker Bell. Oh, it is so dark. Goodnight, Neverland.

Answer 35

Hello? Hello...? Did everybody leave? Peter? Wendy Lady?

Question 36

Wendy: Oh, there you are. Why aren't you in bed?

Answer 36

I was waiting to be tucked in.

Question 37

Wendy: How totally sweet. I shall do it.

Answer 37

Have you had adventures today, Mother?

Question 38

Wendy: Oh yes, but they are not for a child's ears.

Answer 38

Will you tell me, then? Please? I was hoping for a bedtime story.

Question 39

You are right. Even at this hour, a child should have a story.

Answer 39

Start it, Wendy Lady.

Question 40

Wendy: Shhhh just lie down. There once was a gentleman.

Answer 40

I had rather he had been a lady, or a white rat.

Question 41

Wendy: Shhh, quiet. There was a lady also.

Answer 41

Oh, mummy, you mean that there is a lady also, don't you? She is not dead, is she?

Question 42

Wendy: They were married, you know, and what do you think they had?

Answer 42

White rats.

Question 43

Wendy: No, no, no! They had a child. Who one day flew away.

Answer 43

It's an awfully good story.

Question 44

Wendy: ...Now I want you to consider the feelings of the unhappy parents with their child flown away. Think of the empty bed!

Answer 44

It's awful sad. I don't see how it'll have a happy ending. I'm frightfully anxious, mother.

Question 45

Wendy:...so she stayed away for years and had a lovely time.

Answer 45

Did she ever go back?

Question 46

Wendy: ...She might even have a child of her own by then.

Answer 46

We are rewarded for our sublime faith in a mother's love. So up the girl flew to her mummy and her daddy, right? Right, Wendy? Wendy! Hello! So, did she ever go back? Wendy?

Question 47

Tiger Lily: Not so fast.

Answer 47

Your doom! It is your doom!

Question 48

Wendy: Oh how dreadful. I must go home at once.

Answer 48

Wendy, you can't go. Peter, let's keep her prisoner, chain her up.

Question 49

Wendy: Dear ones, if you will all come with me I feel almost sure I can get my father and mother to adopt you. All of you.

Answer 49

Peter, can we go?

Question 50

Peter: If you find your mother, I hope you will like her.

Answer 50

Am I not a noodle for wanting to go?

Question 51

Wendy: Oh. Mother looks so very old.

Answer 51

Does this mean I can't go either?

Question 52

Wendy: Think happy thoughts (2nd time) Tiger Lily: Yes

Answer 52

Yes.

Question 53

Wendy: Think happy... (4th time) Tink: Yes

Answer 53

Yes. (Read out happy thoughts over the top of Wendy's)