“Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I have always loved them … Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down?"
Edmund shook his head. "And it isn't like that," he added. "There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world when you're there.”
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“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.”
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“Murder! Fascists! Lions! It isn't fair.”
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“That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.”
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“A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.”
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“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
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“It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.”
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“I, or any mortal at any time, may be utterly mistaken as to the situation he is really in.”
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“We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.”
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“Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.”
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“Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.”
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“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”
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“A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.”
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“And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins”
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“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
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