That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.

It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.