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Quotation from Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) by J. M. Barrie
““You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.””
Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy), Chapter III, "Come Away, Come Away!" (Project Gutenberg text (1911 Peter and Wendy))
Peter explains to Wendy where fairies come from, just before he tells her that a fairy dies whenever a child says she does not believe.
Citation: "“You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”" — J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy), Chapter III, "Come Away, Come Away!" (Project Gutenberg text (1911 Peter and Wendy)). (id peter-pan-q2)
Portrait: Peter and Wendy (1911), frontispiece, Francis Donkin Bedford, Public domain.
