It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

this is a book about something

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.