If you thirst you may drink.
And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.
I’m a beast, I am, and a Badger what’s more. We don’t change. We hold on.
And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.
No more I do, your Majesty. But what’s that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.
You’re a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don’t come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!
Puddleglum’s my name. But it doesn’t matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.
They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.
And there’s one thing about this underground work, we shan’t get any rain.
You see, Aslan didn’t tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he’s up, I shouldn’t wonder. But that doesn’t let us off following the signs. – The Silver Chair.
Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.
But as long as you know you’re nobody special, you’ll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.
And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.
Father! Can I box him? Please!
All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.
Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone’s done it before. I don’t suppose they have. Oh, bother – -Scrubb probably has!
My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.
Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.
I don’t want to hold you hand!
Got to start by finding it, have we? Can’t start by looking for it, I suppose?