Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Exploration Quotes
On my coronation day, with Aslan's approval, I swore an oath that, if once I established peace in Narnia, I would sail east myself for a year and a day to find my father's friends or to learn of th...
Transformation Quotes
He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. (6.32)
Awe and Amazement Quotes
"I looked up and saw the very last thing I expected: a huge lion coming slowly towards me. And one queer thing was that there was no moon last night, but there was moonlight where the lion was. S...
Literature and Writing Quotes
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools. (1.2)
Contrasting Regions: Narnia and England Quotes
Narnian time flows differently from ours. If you spent a hundred years in Narnia, you would still come back to our world at the very same hour of the very same day on which you left. And then, if...
Principles Quotes
Of course Caspian's ship was not that horrible thing, a galley rowed by slaves. Oars were used only when wind failed or for getting in and out of harbour and everyone (except Reepicheep whose legs...
The Supernatural Quotes
Eustace rushed towards the picture. Edmund, who knew something about magic, sprang after him, warning him to look out and not to be a fool. Lucy grabbed at him from the other side and was dragged f...
Fate and Free Will Quotes
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. (1.1)