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“Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.”

“There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.”

Right out of the gate, George 👏🏻

“But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."

"What is that, grandmother?"

"To understand other people.”

“People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.”

I love that my Wen girl read this before I did (multiple times) and has been walking around with all these living ideas for so long. Now I understand that knowing grin 🥹

"If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it”

Because I have little to zero self-control when it comes to early Christmas presents 😁 Seventh in the series and our 8 year old boy is still very much caught up in the adventure!

“That is how fear serves us— always siding with the thing we are afraid of.”

We pick up all the books in these series and off shoot series. Our nine year old girl loves them all! This one was a longer one but she still enjoyed it.