Sign in with Facebook
“Courage, dear heart.”
― The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
― The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“The life that produces writing can't be written about. Is is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below the mind's business and noise, in deep unlit shafts where phantom messengers struggle toward us, killing one another along the way; and when a few survivors break through to our attention they are received as blandly as waiters bringing more coffee.”
― Old School
― Old School
“I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the Horses the new strength of fear for the last mile so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.”
― The Horse and His Boy
― The Horse and His Boy
“Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument; then collected information about child psychology and decided what age-group I'd write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out 'allegories' to embody them. This is all pure moonshine. I couldn't write in that way at all. Everything began with images; a faun carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion. At first there wasn't even anything Christian about them; that element pushed itself in its own accord.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
Berkeley’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Berkeley’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
585 books
|
40 friends
1,225 books
|
30 friends
403 books
|
40 friends
773 books
|
19 friends
372 books
|
14 friends
420 books
|
15 friends
441 books
|
9 friends
204 books
|
14 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Berkeley
Lists liked by Berkeley
