Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew

I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.