"A man dies after a little who is fed on nothing else." "They die quicker if they stop dreaming; on those that have the gift for it the business of dreaming falls.

Listen! How many that you know have found me ?" "A great many think they have; it comes to the same thing." "The same for them; but you must see that I can never really _be_ until I am for those outside the dream.

The trouble with you is that you'd wake up after a while and you would _know_." "Yes," Peter admitted, "I should know." "Well, then," she was oh, so gentle about it, "yours is the better part.
If you can't have me, at least you're not stopping me by leaving off for something else.

In the dream I can live and grow, and you can grow to me.

Do you remember what happened to Ada Harvey?
I've saved you from that at any rate." "No," said Peter, "it was the dragon saved me.