There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

 

Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.

 

Either this man [Jesus] was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

 

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.