Hidden Paths Quotes

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths.

Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get there at all. It'll happen when you're not looking for it. And don't talk too much about it even among yourselves. And don't mention it to anyone else unless you find that they've had adventures of the same sort themselves. What's that? How will you know? Oh, you'll know all right. Odd things, they say-even their looks-will let the secret out. Keep your eyes open. Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools." -The Profesor

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid unaccustomed thoughts.

Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

I like alleys. They are the backdoor to everything.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.