1. “They will not let us help them. They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their own minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”
2. “It was indeed a shattering loss; for this was an enchanted horn and, whenever you blew it, help was certain to come to you, wherever you were.”
3. “And if Aslan himself comes, (Cair Paravel) would be the best place for meeting him too, for every story says that he is the son of the great Emperor-over-the-Sea, and over the sea he will pass.”
4. “Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.”
5. “If she was a boy she’d have to be knighted, wouldn’t she, Sire?”
6. “Child,” said the Lion, “I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.”
7. “would very much like to have followed the first plan: he hated the idea”
8. “The children also put on mail shirts and helmets; a sword and shield were found for Edmund and a bow for Lucy—Peter and Susan were of course already carrying their gifts.”
9. “Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.”
10. “the Head’s friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn’t much good even at that, they got her into Parliament”
11. “O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike.”
12. ″‘And that means,’ continued Edmund, ‘that, once you’re out of Narnia, you have no idea how Narnian time is going. Why shouldn’t hundreds of years have gone past in Narnia while only one year has passed for us in England?‘”
13. “The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
14. “All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.”
15. “Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.”
16. “True freedom means doing what I tell you.”
17. “But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice.”
18. “She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.”
19. ″(Lucy) had once known them better than the stars of our own world, because as a Queen in Narnia she had gone to bed much later than as a child in England.”
20. “you know? He’s the King. He’s the Lord of the whole”
21. “But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.”
22. “One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.”
23. “But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”
24. “Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.”
25. “Girls aren’t very good at keeping maps in their brains”, said Edmund, “That’s because we’ve got something in them”, replied Lucy.”
26. “Narnia! It’s all in the wardrobe just like I told you!”
27. “When I’m older I’ll understand,” said Lucy. “I am older and I don’t think I want to understand,” replied Edmund.
28. “One always feel better when one has made up one’s mind.”
29. “But we’re not quite as bad as that world, are we, Aslan?” “Not yet, Daughter of Eve,” he said. “Not yet. But you are growing more like it.”
30. “I’m hunger. I’m thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy’s body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.”
31. “People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If”
32. “Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!”
33. “No thanks,” said Digory, “I don’t know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I’d rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.”
34. “Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.”
35. “Up till now neither Caspian nor the others had really been thinking of a war. They had some vague idea, perhaps, of an occasional raid on some Human farmstead or of attacking a party of hunters, if it ventured too far into these southern wilds.”
36. “I am [in your world].’ said Aslan. ‘But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
37. “Now sir,” said the bulldog in his business-like way. “Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?”
38. “Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.”
39. “great nations in your world will be ruled by tyrants who care no more for joy and justice and mercy than the Empress Jadis.”
40. ″‘It is hard for you, little one,’ said Aslan. ‘But things never happen the same way twice. It has been hard for us all in Narnia before now.‘”
41. “A noble friend is the best gift. A noble enemy is the next best.”
42. “She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.”
43. “Alas,” said Aslan, shaking his head. “It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart’s desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.”
44. “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different…”
45. “Yes,” said Queen Lucy. “In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.”
46. “Then Patterwig came back with the nut and Caspian ate it and after that Patterwig asked if he could take any messages to other friends.”
47. “And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to an end, but that was not to be.”
48. “Wherever they went in the little town of Beruna it was the same. Most of the people fled, a few joined them. When they left the town they were a larger and a merrier company.”
49. “Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.”
50. “One day you’ll see him and another you won’t. He doesn’t like being tied down—and of course he has other countries to attend to. It’s quite all right. He’ll often drop in. Only you mustn’t press him. He’s wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.”
51. “Courage, dear heart.”
52. “No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.”
53. “Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.”
54. “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. One might just as well say you’re her human.”
55. “That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.”
56. “…if you’ve been up all night and cried till you had no more tears left in you – you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You fee as if nothing is ever going to happen again.”
57. “If you don’t admit any trouble, you’ll find there aren’t many.”
58. “the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
59. “that if we break our necks getting down the cliff, then we’re safe from being drowned in the river.”
60. “Yes, of course you’ll get back to Narnia again someday. Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don’t go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don’t try to get there at all. It’ll happen when you’re not looking for it. And don’t talk too much about it even among yourselves. And don’t mention it to anyone else unless you find that they’ve had adventures of the same sort themselves.”
61. “This is the land of Narnia,’ said the Faun, ‘where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.”
62. “But when day came, with a sprinkle of rain, and he looked about him and saw on every side unknown woods, wild heaths, and blue mountains, he thought how large and strange the world was and felt frightened and small.”
63. “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.”
64. “And if I hadn’t believed in (Aslan) before, I would now. Back there among the Humans the people who laughed at Aslan would have laughed at stories about Talking Beasts and Dwarfs. Sometimes 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.”
65. “When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”
66. ″‘Yes—that and other things,’ said Peter, his face very solemn. ‘I can’t tell it to you all. There were things he wanted to say to Su and me because we’re not coming back to Narnia.‘”
67. “No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.”