This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.