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if he’s not searching the earth for a mirror to shatter and free me, he’s not the one I fear.

You can tell CS Lewis read MacDonald because he also had a male protagonist read a sign that said “do not touch the obviously enchanted object” and proceed to touch it; you can tell this irritated Lewis because he wrote Polly’s indignant “you just had to, didn’t you?”

“Endurance must conquer what force cannot reach.”

“The merest trifle sometimes rivets the attention in the deepest misery. The intellect has so little to do with grief.”

Reading this for a bookclub but it’s a slog to get through. Thought I’d enjoy it more since I like CS Lewis and Tolkiens writings, and this was a big inspiration for them.