Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get there at all. It'll happen when you're not looking for it. And don't talk too much about it even among yourselves. And don't mention it to anyone else unless you find that they've had adventures of the same sort themselves. What's that? How will you know? Oh, you'll know all right. Odd things, they say-even their looks-will let the secret out. Keep your eyes open. Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools." -The Profesor

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.