He wants to tell her it was beautiful. That her voice, that she, is beautiful. But it is so far removed from what he would ordinarily say, so daring, even, to think.
“They Open A Door And Enter A World”
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― A Temple of Texts
― A Temple of Texts
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”
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“And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to an end; but that was not to be.”
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“I discovered that the wisdom of the world, and a great deal of its folly also, is to be found in the pages of books. And”
― The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection: All 7 Books Plus Bonus Book: Boxen
― The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection: All 7 Books Plus Bonus Book: Boxen
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