Clive Staples Lewis

stiff Eton collar

take any notice of her,

Then his face went the wrong sort of shape as it does if you’re trying to keep back your tears.

turn Digory’s mind to cheerful subjects,

the foot of the attic-stairs

That was how Polly and Digory got to know

"Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations

Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop’ into good.

we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in ‘the High Countries’. In that sense it will be true for those who have completed the journey (and for no others) to say that good is everything and Heaven everywhere.