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

by C.S. Lewis

I think (and Digory thinks too) that her mind was of a sort which cannot remember that quiet place at all, and however often you took her there and however long you left her there, she would still know nothing about it.

I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.

He had forgotten his troubles and felt absolutely content.