We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.