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The creature was there, a curiously shaped creature no doubt, but all loathing had vanished clean out of his mind, so that neither then nor at any oth...more

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He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

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The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evi...more

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Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let b...more

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For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy rela...more

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The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familia...more

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Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is...more

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(Of the main character seeing a new world for the first time.) The air was cold but not bitterly so, and it seemed a bit rough at the back of his thro...more

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I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what se...more

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It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,” said the Voice...The whole distinction between things accidental and things designed, like the disti...more

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I did wonder if there really was such a person as Aslan: but then sometimes I wondered if there were really people like you. Yet there you are.

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We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer...more

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I beg readers to remember that this is a fantasy. It has of course - or I intended it to have - a moral. But the transmortal conditions are solely an ...more

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this is a book about something

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As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone would expect after being under water. His clothes were...more