The Chronicles of Narnia (комплект из 7 книг)

The little paper bag was very squashy and sticky when they finally got it out, so that it was more a question of tearing the bag off the toffees than of getting the toffees out of the bag. Some grown-ups (you know how fussy they can be about that sort of thing) would rather have gone without supper altogether than eaten those toffees. There were nine of them all told. It was Digory who had the bright idea of eating four each and planting the ninth; for, as he said, "if the bar off the lamp-post turned into a little light-tree, why shouldn't this turn into a toffee-tree?" So they dibbled a small hole in the turf and buried the piece of toffee. Then they ate the other pieces, making them last as long as they could. It was a poor meal, even with all the paper they couldn't help eating as well.

And now a very curious thing happened. None of the children knew who Aslan was any more than you do; but the moment the Beaver had spoken these words everyone felt quite different. Perhaps it has sometimes happened to you in a dream that someone says something which you don't understand but in the dream it feels as if it had some enormous meaning - either a terrifying one which turns the whole dream into a nightmare or else a lovely meaning too lovely to put into words, which makes the dream so beautiful that you remember it all your life and are always wishing you could get into that dream again. It was like now.

- Допустим, мы и впрямь увидели во сне или придумали деревья, траву, солнце, луну, и звезды и даже самого Аслана. Допустим. В таком случае вынужден заявить, что наши придуманные вещи куда важнее настоящих...
...Мы, может быть, и дети, затеявшие игру, но, выходит, мы, играя, придумали мир, который по всем статьям лучше вашего, настоящего. И потому я за этот придуманный мир. Я на стороне Аслана, даже если настоящего Аслана не существует. Я буду стараться жить, как нарниец, даже если не существует никакой Нарнии.