No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.