“Yes,” said Queen Lucy. “In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.”
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“Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.”
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“By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!”
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“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart”
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“And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.”
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“Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.”
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“All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.”
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“until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.”
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“It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
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“In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.”
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“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.”
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“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story.”
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“Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.”
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“Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?”
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