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…And so…there ought to be one fairy for every boy and girl.”
“Ought to be? Isn’t there?”
“No. You see children known such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Peter Pan- J.M. Barrie