The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #2) (Publication Order, #1)

by C.S. Lewis

“It isn’t something I have done. I’m doing it now, this very moment.”

does your experience lead you to regard your brother or your sister as the more reliable?

a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing;

“Logic!” said the Professor half to himself. “Why don’t they teach logic at these schools? There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is telling lies, or she is mad, or she is telling the truth. You know she doesn’t tell lies and it is obvious that she is not mad. For the moment then and unless any further evidence turns up, we must assume that she is telling the truth.”

‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good.

This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia—in our world they usually don’t talk at all.

“But battles are ugly when women fight.

It didn’t look now as if the Witch intended to make him a King. All the things he had said to make himself believe that she was good and kind and that her side was really the right side sounded to him silly now.

And Edmund for the first time in this story felt sorry for someone besides himself.