Explore Book Quotes

“Then I went on, and my feet seemed to be a long way off, and everything seemed to come from a long way off, and I could hear my feet walking a great distance away.”

“You’ll never live to wed his niece. You’ll only die to feed his geese.”

“Why, what’s the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”

“Gone to heaven, I hope; where we may, every one, join her, if we take due warning and leave our evil ways to follow good!”

“Low down and near the horizon hung a great, red sun, far bigger than our sun. Digory felt at once that it was also older than ours: a sun near the end of its life, weary of looking down upon that world. To the left of the sun, and higher up, there was a single star, big and bright. Those were the only two things to be seen in the dark sky; they made a dismal group.”

“I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.”

“Every thought of yours is a real thing – a force.”

He is a clever man, a reading man; and I confess, that I do consider his attaching himself to her with some surprise.

“We should feel prepared, as Emerson once put it, to recreate the whole world out of ourselves even if no one else existed.”

“Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!”