To know what would have happened, child? No. Nobody is ever told that. - C. S. Lewis

This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia — in our world they usually don't talk at all.
- The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

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 goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.