In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow.