The Princess and Curdie

I was doing the wrong of never wanting or trying to better. And now I see that I have been letting things go as the would for a long time. Whatever came into my head I did and whatever didn't come into my head I didn't d…

A mountain is a strange and awful thing. In old times, without knowing so much of their strangeness and awfulness as we do, people were yet more afraid of mountains. But then somehow they had not come to see how beautifu…

Then the great old, young, beautiful princess turned to Curdie.
"Now, Curdie, are you ready?" she said.
"Yes ma'am," answered Curdie.
"You do not know what for."
"You do, ma'am. That is enough.

But it was little to Curdie that men who did not know what he was about should not approve of his proceedings.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others:in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection. One of the latter sort comes at length to know at once…

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by? ' No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in qui…

Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they…

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not me…

I don't know how to thank you.'Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.