Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.

For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

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