To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

I was with book, as a woman is with child.