My Dear Lucy,    I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather,    C. S. Lewis

“And I really believed it was Him tonight, when you woke us up. I mean, deep down inside. Or I could have, if I'd let myself.”

“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.” ― C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair 

Narnia Week: Day 6: Favourite Quote

➵ you may find narnia a more savage place than you remember

“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. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. 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.”

—That Was Then, This Is Now by Josh Wilson

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