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41 " But, first, remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the morning and when you lie down at night, and when you wake in the middle of the night. And whatever strange things may happen to you, let nothing turn your mind from following the signs. "
― C.S. Lewis , The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
42 " You couldn't expect good times to last. "
43 " Then Caspian caught up a battle-axe and rushed upon the Lord Drinian to kill him, and Drinian stood still as a stock for the death blow. But when the axe was raised, Caspian suddenly threw it away and cried out, "I have lost my queen and my son: shall I lose my friend also?" And he fell upon the Lord Drinian's neck and embraced him and both wept, as their friendship was not broken. "
44 " And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits. "
45 " Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up all 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. "
46 " We need to keep our eyes and ears open. "
47 " If you are thirsty, come and drink. "
48 " the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell. "
49 " Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort. "
50 " I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. "
51 " When you meet me here again, you will have come to stay. But not now. You must go back to your own world for a while. "
52 " Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things. "
53 " Puddleglum!" said Jill. "You're a regular old humbug. You sound as doleful as a funeral and I believe you're perfectly happy. And you talk as if you were afraid of everything, when you're really as brave as - as a lion. "
54 " You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets! "
55 " On fine nights when the cold and the drumtaps, and the hooting of the owls, and the moonlight, have got into their wild, woodland blood and made it even wilder, they will dance till daybreak. "
56 " All right, I said murder and I'll say it again as often as I like, so keep your hair on... "
57 " But fie on gravity! "
58 " He had never dreamed that the country of which she would make him king (king in name but really a slave) was his own country. "
59 " She felt frightened only for a second. For one thing, the world beneath her was so very far away that it seemed to have nothing to do with her. "
60 " Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all 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 great deal more important than the real ones... That's why I'm going to stand by the 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 a like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. "