"Who is Aslan? Do you know him?"
"Well — he knows me," said Edmund.

2024 thoughts: I simply never tire of the aesthetic & world of this book. I want to travel to the Lone Islands & meet Ramandu's Daughter and drink the sweet ocean at the end of the world. This time through I was particularly struck by the sheer beauty, otherworldly, alien, incomprehensible, of Aslan's country. I can't comprehend it. But I find the beauty of the mundane world that Lewis presents to be so thrilling, so captivating, so utterly desirable that I suppose I am just not whole enough yet to get the beauty of the end.

(I think I need to write a paper comparing this book to TWHF)

"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."
"Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."

Eustace Scrubb ~ Sarah Sparks

as he looked through my eyes
at the things I despised
I felt pierced by his gaze
but he peeled off my skin
and he threw me into
the water to save me

I wore this bracelet, bright and golden
that overnight became a chain
I was a lonely, wretched soul that
lost in the dark cried out your name
you cut me deep, I know I felt it
but it’s the sweetest kind of pain
oh sweet relief, you took my burdens
oh I believe, oh I believe