The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles Of Narnia, #1 )

by C.S. Lewis

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.