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"For all the mindless flattery, calling him the Konoe of Aomori and whatnot, no one really knew the loneliness inside him."

"To love someone is to put your life on the line. I don't take it lightly."

" 'Thanks. I won't forget you, pal.'
My suicide was postponed for another month."

" 'If we ever loved one another, let me go with you now.' (...) "

" 'Gay,' said Puddleglum with a deep sigh. 'That's what we've got to be. Gay. (...)'

'All right. Gay's the word,' said Scrubb 'Now, if we could only get someone to open this door. While we're fooling about and being Gay, we've got to find out all we can about this castle.'

(...) 'And you must always remember there's one good thing about being trapped down here: it'll save funeral expenses.'

'Why, Froggy, you're a man.'

'Not a man... Marsh-wiggle. (...) Not frog either: Marsh-wiggle. (...) Marsh-wiggle. Marsh-wiggle. Very respectable Marsh-wiggle. Respectowiggle.'

(...) 'You'd better carry Froggy. He's had a drop more than's good for him.'

'Nothing wrong with me. Not a frog. Nothing frog with me. I'm a respectabiggle.'

(...) 'And what's that?'

'Reshpeckobiggle.' said Puddleglum.

" ( By the way, I have never yet heard how these remote islands became attached to the crown of Narnia; if I ever do, and if the story is at all interesting, I may put it in some other book.)

( I don't know what the Bearded Glass was for because I am not a magician.) "

" 'Lu, you're a hero,' said Peter. 'That's the nearest you've got today to saying I told you so. Let's get on.' "

" 'That's the worse of girls,' said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. 'They never carry a map in their heads.'

'That's because our heads have something inside them,' said Lucy. "

" 'I don't suppose any of them will care two lumps of sugar whether you roll or not.' "

" (...) and the noise of the hoofs - Propputty-proputty as it would be on hard road, but Thubbudy-thubbudy on the dry sand."

"

"(...) The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays."

" '(...) Horse. I don't know your name.'

'Breehy - hinny - brinny- hoohy - ha,' said the Horse.

'I'll never be able to say that,' said Shasta. 'Can I call you Bree?'

'Well, if it's the best you can do, I suppose you must,' said the Horse. 'And what shall I call you?'

'I'm called Shasta.'

'H'm,' said Bree. 'Well, now, there's a name that's really hard to pronounce. (...)"

" I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again."

"This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narinia - in our world they usually don't talk at all."


"(...) and other creatures whom I won't describe because if I did the grown-ups would probably not let you read this book (...)"

" 'My dear young lady," said the Professor, suddenly looking up with a very sharp expression at both of them, 'there is one plan which no one has yet suggested and which is well worth trying.'

'What's that?' said Susan.

'We might all try minding our own business.' "

" 'Well?' said the He-Beaver at last, 'what in the name of Aslan, are these?' " 😂

" This was the old banqueting hall where my great-grandfather bade seven hundred nobles to a feast and killed them all before they had drunk their fill. They had had rebellious thoughts."

Lăpușneanu' , what are you doing here? 😂

"A woman they cannot control,
whether Goddes or mortal,
is a dangerous woman."


" 'The crown is tempting to all,'
she murmured softly, 'other than
the one who must wear it.' "


"I was starting to feel as though my entire existence was a threat. Perhaps this was what womanhood was. The dangerous knowledge of who you are and what you could do with that power if you pushed."

"I was determined
to find out
what I could be."


" 'If you want to be friends with him
you need to give him treats.' "


"Death truly was a great equalizer.
For where else could you find a king
and a fisherman playing cards together?"


"If the Gods could not have a prayer through peace, then they would have it through fear."

"There is no difference between Gods and monsters, child."

"Despite it all, I was a hopeful child.
Despite it all, I needed my father."


"all of the heavens
on my shoulders
crushing me

till nothing was left."


"Courage would be the name of my story."

"How did they forget,
when they walked upon
those golden floors every day,
that the surface they walked on,
the gold of their beautiful mountain,

came from the blood of those
they once called family?"

"She remembers how it feels to deliver death, and she dreads it, and she craves it."