Clive Staples Lewis

stiff Eton collar

take any notice of her,

Then his face went the wrong sort of shape as it does if you’re trying to keep back your tears.

turn Digory’s mind to cheerful subjects,

the foot of the attic-stairs

That was how Polly and Digory got to know

I don’t mean another planet, you know; they’re part of our world and you could get to them if you went far enough—but a really Other World—another Nature another universe—somewhere you would never reach even if you travelled through the space of this universe for ever and ever—a world that could be reached only by Magic—well

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

“You have not made the first joke; you have only been the first joke.”

For though the world is not five hours old an evil has already entered it.