The Silver Chair Truth Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Page)

Quote #7

How often they woke and slept and ate and slept again, none of them could ever remember. And the worst thing about it was that you began to feel as if you had always lived on that ship, in that darkness, and to wonder whether sun and blue skies and wind and birds had not been only a dream. (10.148)

This is the beginning of losing the truth about Overland, Narnia, and Aslan, and it's something the Queen of Underland will use later when she tries to enchant them all. The children and Puddleglum are feeling muddled because of sensory deprivation—when the senses are not stimulated—which plays tricks on their minds.

Quote #8

"Those words meant nothing to your purpose. Had you but asked my Lady, she could have given you better counsel. For those words are all that is left of a longer script, which in ancient times, as she well remembers, expressed this verse: Though under Earth and throneless now I be/Yet, while I lived, all Earth was under me." (10.153)

Enchanted Rilian tries to convince Puddleglum and the children that they've been led on a wild goose chase by re-interpreting the letters carved on top of the ruined city of the giants. It really makes them think that Aslan made a mistake, and that Rilian and the Lady truly understand the meaning of the letters.

Quote #9

"There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant King caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this." (10.154)

Puddleglum is a tough bird and won't let the enchanted Rilian convince them that Aslan has had them on a stupid errand. He won't be talked out of believing in their mission or in the existence or goodness of the Lion.