Do I hope that if feeling disguises itself as thought I shall feel less?

You talk far too much...Procure for me at once a chariot or a flying carpet or a well-trained dragon, or whatever is usual for royal and noble persons in your land. Then bring me to places where I can get clothes and jewels and slaves fit for my rank. Tomorrow I will begin my conquest of the world.

This shame has nothing to do with He or She. It's the being mortal - how shall I say it? ... insufficient.

Good is always getting better and bad is always getting worse: the possibilities of even apparent neutrality are always diminishing.

I am the writer, but God is the author.

And what about Mr. Tumnus? said Lucy. Where is he?

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.