I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

“Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.”

“Reepicheep: Unhand the tail. Aslan the Great gave me this tail and no one, repe…”

“He'll be coming and going. One day you'll see him and another you won't.”

“The enemy has filled His world full of pleasures . . . Everything has to be twi…”