💬 Quotes

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often we call a man cold when he is only sad."

"If I could have answered him, I would have told him that the meaning of my life was to be with him."

"A dog exists for the present day, the present hour, the present now."

"Everything that is alive is connected to everything else, and we are all part of a larger plan."

"My goal had become clear to me: I was to be a good dog, and I was to be there for my boy."

"Life is a journey, and we are all just traveling through it, learning lessons along the way."

"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."