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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) QUOTES

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) QUOTES

1 " Adventures are never fun while you're having them. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

2 " But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

3 " The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

4 " Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons). "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

5 " He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

6 " Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

7 " One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

8 " Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

9 " And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

10 " Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

11 " My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan’s country, or shot over the edge of the world into some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

12 " Courage, dear heart. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

13 " There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

14 " But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

15 " It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?"
"But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan.
"Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund.
"I am," 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. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

16 " Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan’s country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

17 " The number of things he thought of saying all at once nearly suffocated him. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

18 " In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."
Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

19 " Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

20 " and I don't think we can do anything for him. It only makes him worse if you try to be nice to him. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)