Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.

Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.

You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and people and lights and animals and the dark sadness that lurks in the coners and beneath the rides and in the trailers after hours. So they ride teh Ferris wheel, and at the top, they think they've left it all behind They've ascended to a place where they can take things seriously. Where they can be taken seriously.

Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.