💬 Quotes

"Be here now. That was the secret to being a dog."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things exactly the same there, but they have a lot more trouble with the grammar."

"Fiction should be like a terrifying, alarming foreign country, you should learn to leave your own reality behind."

"I suppose that if you don't like something, you can always rewrite it. That's the beauty of being a literary detective."

"Life is an absurdly long walk through a museum of things we can’t have."

"Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all of those things—trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones."

"I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia."

"There are no accidents. Our guide is always leading us, even when we think we are lost."

"You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you."

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not in the least a good children's story."

"The way I see it, anyone who has a child and manages to keep it clean and fed and out of the emergency room is doing a good job."

"People are like birds. They’re always looking for a place to light, and they’re always looking for a reason to fly away."

"Life is a peculiar thing. You think you're going along on one track, and then something happens and you're on a completely different one."

"It’s funny how you can live in a place for a long time and still feel like a stranger, and then one day you just belong."

"Maybe you don't have to be blood to be family."

"Even the bean trees, which have no right to grow, will bloom in the desert if they have a little bit of water and the right company."

"Wir sind die Kinder der Jahrtausende, wir sind die Träger des alten Blutes, das in unseren Adern wie flüssiges Feuer fließt."

"Das Böse ist ein Punkt der Sichtweise. Gott tötet wahllos, also warum sollten wir nicht dasselbe tun?"

"Ich wollte eine Königin sein, keine Göttin, aber die Sterblichen haben mir keine andere Wahl gelassen."

"Musik ist die einzige Sprache, die die Mauern zwischen den Welten durchbrechen kann, selbst für die Untoten."