There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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.
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
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.
If there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most, or else just silly.
This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life.
Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people’s minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.
But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, “Courage, dear heart,” and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan’s, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.
Aslan’s instructions always work; there are no exceptions.
She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.
The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time – for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.