When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled in the children's bodies, and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying: "Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.