We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you get to rule Narnia for another hundred years. So maybe I die, and winter goes on. Maybe the hunger and the darkness and the fear never end. But as long as the children believe in me, I know that Aslan will live again. I, the Great Lion, Son of The Emperor Over The Sea, will live again and -- aaaaauugh!!

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.