Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.

To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.