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

by C.S. Lewis

“It’s because you’re a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.”

“Oh, don’t be such an ass,” said Polly.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

And oh, oh— Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true;