Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.