"But indeed, after the water and the earth, I thought we had already crossed the brook in a sense."
"You will always be thinking that," said the Guide. "We call it Death in the Mountain language. It is too tough a morsel to eat at one bite. You will meet that brook more often than you think: and each time you will suppose that you have done with it for good. But some day you really will."
- The Pilgrim's Regress, Book 9, Chapter 6
And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goees on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
- The Last Battle, Chapter 16: Farewell to Shadowlands
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