You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus in a woman's body.

I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.

Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.