Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.

Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.