The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) (Publication Order, #6)

by C.S. Lewis

“Creatures, I give you yourselves,”

“No, little friend,” said the Lion. “You have not made the first joke; you have only been the first joke.”

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing:

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

he couldn’t have heard anything else even if he had wanted to.

I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice.

Oh Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

All get what they want; they do not always like it.”