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

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.

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.

I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use.