But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.