The Silver Chair Quotes

"Why were you so near the edge, Human Child?" "I was showing off, Sir." "That is a very good answer, Human Child. Do so no more." (2.24-26)

"Supposing I told you I'd been in a place where animals can talk and where there are—er—enchantments and dragons—and—well, all the sorts of things you have in fairy-tales." (1.7)

"I don't know that anyone can exactly help. It stands to reason we're not likely to get very far on a journey to the North, not at this time of year, with the winter coming on soon and all. And an...

"Well, I was with [Caspian] on that journey: with him and Reepicheep the Mouse, and the Lord Drinian and all of them […] and what I want to say is this, that I'm the King's man; and if this parli...

"[Caspian was] about as good a friend as a chap could have. And last time he was only a few years older than me. And to see that old man with a white beard, and to remember Caspian as he was the mo...

She now realized that Scrubb had some excuse for looking white, for no cliff in our world is to be compared with this. Imagine yourself at the top of the very highest cliff you know. And imagine yo...

Scrubb saw that she wasn't quite herself yet and very sensibly offered her a peppermint. He had one too. Presently Jill began to see things in a clearer light. (1.5)

All sorts of things, horrid things, went on which at an ordinary school would have been found out and stopped in half a term; but at this school, they weren't. Or even if they were, the people who...

"But about a month after the Queen's death, some said they could see a change in [Rilian]. There was a look in his eyes as of a man who has seen visions, and though he would be out all day, his hor...

[Jill] didn't mind in the least standing on the edge of a precipice. She was rather annoyed with Scrubb for pulling her back—"just as if I was a kid," she said—and she wrenched her hand out of...