Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

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

I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.

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

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.