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JOURNEY Michelle Lee
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“This is a book about something...” CS Lewis
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This is a collection of quotes from stories filled with wonder and adventure. They are stories that spark our imaginations to dream of a far off world, which possesses a deeper magic from before the dawn of time. It is a world where the forces of good and evil battle against one another, causing heroes to rise and villians to fall, and annointing kings and queens to reign over the land. CS Lewis gave us the wonderful world of Narnia. In this book, quotes were selected from the seven novels of the Chronicles of Narnia. And within these quotes, a new narrative is told. Like CS Lewis, it tells a coming-of-age story of one’s life journey and shows its transformation through words.
And now our journey begins...
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ordinary
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
‘I have come,’ said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
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As I gazed into his bright, unblinking eyes, I see STRENGTH and
JOY
in them. I turn to shut
my eyes as I pale in comparison ,
COWARDLY and ordinary . for I am
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‘You have a traitor there, Aslan,’ said the Witch. Of course, everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he’d been through and after the talk he’d had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn’t seem to matter what the Witch said.
past Even a walk will get us somewhere sometime.
present When there is no one to force you any more, you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.
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It doesn’t matter if you are
LOST or were said
to be a
traitor.
After all you have been
through, more looking at the
no
past but
FORCE yourself think in the
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Let us go on and take the adventures that shall fall to us.
adventures
twice Things never happen the same way twice.
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LET us take on things as they shall fall as the same
adventures will never happen twice. Let US take on things as they shall fall as the same adventures will never happen twice. Let us on things as they shall fall as the same adventures will never happen twice. Let us take ON things as they shall fall as the same adventures will never happen twice. Let us take on as they shall fall as the same adventures will never happen twice. Let us take on things they shall fall as the same adventures will never happen twice. Let us take on things as shall fall as the same
take
things
AS
they
adventures will never happen twice. Let us take on things as they shall fall as the same adventures will never happen
FALL
twice. Let us take on things as they shall as the same adventures will never happen twice. Let us take on things as they shall fall adventures will never happen twice. Let us take on things as they shall fall as the same will never happen twice. Let us take on things as they shall fall as the same adventures happen twice. Let us take on things as they shall fall as the same adventures will never twice. Let us take on things as they shall fall as the same adventures will never happen twice. Let us take on things as they shall fall as the same adventures will never happen .
as the same
ADVENTURES
will never
happen
TWICE
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
grown-ups That one small noise brought back the old days to the children’s minds more than anything that had happened yet. All the battles and hunts and feasts came rushing into their heads together.
Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
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Grown-ups are too
serious.
They wonder back to days as CHILDREN . Jokes brought
SILLINESS and
happiness
into their minds. Yet now, it is
WASTED
on them.
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noble
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
‘The help will come,’ said Trufflehunter. ‘I stand by Aslan. Have patience, like us beasts. The help will come. It may be even now at the door.’
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COME now so I may remember that
PATIENCE is a treasure that will help the noble stand to
THE END.
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I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!
home
Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.
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belong All my life, I always looked but
NEVER belonged. But now I have come home at last. Here, I am a king of my COUNTRY, and I
always belong
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new If you are thirsty, come and drink.
The difference between the old Narnia and the new Narnia was like that. The new one was a deeper country: every rock and flower and blade of grass looked as if it meant more.
different In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the freeze that forces tears. Then when the sound dies out, the White Witch wakes. It was like, I want to touch you, and I can touch you, now what next, a dagger?
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The bell
CHIMES,
waking the desert. But as the sound dies, flowers TEAR
blade of a DAGGER. It is the grass like a
different
new, and I want to look at what MORE comes next. and
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I hate when I look in my closet and find clothes instead of Narnia.
dangers The truth is, he was so glad at being free from his long enchantment that all dangers seemed a game in comparison. But the rest found it an eerie journey.
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I hate the LONG
journey because all I seem to as I
FIND
,
look, is a game with
dangers
and EERIE
ENCHANTMENTS, instead of finding the
freedom
or
truth.
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Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.
secret
They did nothing wrong their time here has ended.
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I suppose having a
SECRET
does
nothing WRONG to
most of us, but MOST are
luckier than others.
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remeber
The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluishgreen waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?
For those who come so far. Some call this island the World’s End, for though you can sail further, this is the beginning of the end.
beginning
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I have come
far
, towering up long miles of sandy
beaches and sailing the
THROUGH
bluish green waves of the sea. You
can call this the
END
remember
it as the
for me, but I will
beginning.
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courage
Child,’ said the Lion, ‘I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, ‘Courage, dear heart,’ and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan’s, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.
whisper She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.
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COURAGE to not shut my heart, even if I will have
I FEEL like a
child and my
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Grief is great. Only you and I in this land know that yet. Let us be good to one another.
wild
He’ll be coming and going” he had said. “One day you’ll see him and another you won’t. He doesn’t like being tied down– and of course he has other countries to attend to. It’s quite all right. He’ll often drop in. Only you mustn’t press him. He’s wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.
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GRIEF comes and goes. It is
cunning
and ties your
mind down
like a prison. It often drops in like
a WILD lion, and it doesn’t like to be TAMED.
You will be all
right. DO NOT be
afraid for you and I have one another.
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And they themselves grew and changed as the years passed over them. And Peter became a tall and deep-chested man and a great warrior, and he was called King Peter the Magnificent. And Susan grew into a tall and gracious woman with black hair that fell almost to her feet and the kings of the countries beyond the sea began to send ambassadors asking for her hand in marriage. And she was called Queen Susan the Gentle. Edmund was a graver and quieter man than Peter, and great in council and judgement. He was called King Edmund the Just. But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all the princes in those parts desired her to be their Queen, and her own people called her Queen Lucy the Valiant.
gentle
To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle. And to the clear northern skies, I give you King Peter the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. May your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens.
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Over the years, I have changed. My quiet
GENTLE council grew into wisdom that was just and and
CLEAR.
But I desire to be
valiant and
magnificent like a great king or queen, to be RADIANT like the golden sun.
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Credits
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quotes CS Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia Series: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Prince Caspian The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The Silver Chair The Magician’s Nephew The Horse and His Boy The Last Battle H.B. Bolton Helen Oyeyemi, While is for Witching
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“You can make anything by writing.” CS Lewis
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