“Family is never really gone.”

“Its all in my mind.Im in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.”

“Or maybe Im not going crazy. Maybe Im some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and Im just breaking down.Im not sure which way is worse.Dad laughs. Youre not in your right mind, dear, he says. No, ...”

“As the dreamscape around me grows clearer, I slip further away from it. The mind is a magical thing, Im discovering. A dreamscape is made of thought and is wider than the sky, able to grow large en...”

“And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.”

“She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fireno, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.”

“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”