# Quote — J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

> HOOK. (Communing with his ego.) "How still the night is; nothing sounds alive. Now is the hour when children in their homes are a-bed... Compare with them the children on this boat about to walk the plank. Split my infinitives, but 'tis my hour of triumph!"

- Author: [J.M. Barrie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jm-barrie.md)
- Book: [Peter Pan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jm-barrie/peter-pan.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jm-barrie/peter-pan/hook-communing-with

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> If he could get the hang of the thing his cry might become To live would be an awfully big adventure! but he can never quite the hang of it...

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> The night nursery of the Darling family, which is the scene of our opening Act, is at the top of a rather depressed street in Bloomsbury. We have a right to place it where we will, and the reason Bloomsbury is chosen is that Mr. Roget once lived there.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jm-barrie/peter-pan/the-night-nursery.md)

> Proud and insolent youth, prepare to meet thy doom.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jm-barrie/peter-pan/proud-and-insolent.md)