Character

Lucy Pevensie

Also known as Lucy, Queen Lucy, Lucy the Valiant

The youngest Pevensie and the first to enter Narnia through the wardrobe. Her trust in Aslan, attentiveness to others, and healing cordial make her a constant source of courage.

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe31 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 1Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war becaus…Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 8"Hadn't we all better go to bed?" said Lucy. "There's sure to be a row if we're heard talking here."Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 1"Good evening," said Lucy. But the Faun was so busy picking up his parcels that at first he did not reply. When he had finished he made h…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 3"My name's Lucy," said she, not quite understanding him.Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 1Lucy ran out of the empty room into the passage and found the other three.Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 3"What on earth are you talking about, Lucy?" asked Susan.Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 32…ed with her wand and Edmund turned and saw the same lamp-post under which Lucy had met the Faun. "Straight on, beyond that, is the way to the World of Men. And now look the other way"--here …Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 39…edge when he heard someone calling his own name, and looking round he saw Lucy coming towards him from another part of the wood.Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 1Because the game of hide-and-seek was still going on, it took Edmund and Lucy some time to find the others. But when at last they were all together (which happened in the long room, where t…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 4… to that moment Edmund had been feeling sick, and sulky, and annoyed with Lucy for being right, but he hadn't made up his mind what to do. When Peter suddenly asked him the question he decid…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 10…s all round. And this wet stuff is snow. Why, I do believe we've got into Lucy's wood after all."Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 12Peter turned at once to Lucy.Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 1…hind, both the girls suddenly cried "Oh!" and stopped. "The robin!" cried Lucy, "the robin. It's flown away." And so it had--right out of sight.Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 9"What is it?" asked Lucy, trying very hard not to sound nervous.Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 1"And now," said Lucy, "do please tell us what's happened to Mr. Tumnus."Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 3"But where's he been taken to?" asked Lucy.Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 21…pression on its face, and Edmund couldn't help wondering if this might be Lucy's friend. The only light came from a single lamp and close behind this sat the White Witch.Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 13…allest for the smallest of us: that's you, my dear," she added looking at Lucy.Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 14"Oh, do please come on," said Lucy.Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 5…ming at the end of the long day, made them all pant and blow. And just as Lucy was wondering whether she could really get to the top without another long rest, suddenly they were at the top.…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 15"Welcome, Peter, Son of Adam," said Aslan. "Welcome, Susan and Lucy, Daughters of Eve. Welcome He-Beaver and She-Beaver."Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 35…ied out. "But supposing she turns the two leopards into stone?" whispered Lucy to Peter. I think the same idea had occurred to the leopards themselves; at any rate, as they walked off their …Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 53…ing while the Lion and the Witch talked earnestly together in low voices. Lucy said, "Oh, Edmund!" and began to cry. Peter stood with his back to the others looking out at the distant sea. T…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 7For the last part of the journey it was Susan and Lucy who saw most of him. He did not talk very much and seemed to them to be sad.Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 13…And after she had lain counting sheep and turning over and over she heard Lucy give a long sigh and turn over just beside her in the darkness.Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 4As soon as the wood was silent again Susan and Lucy crept out into the open hill-top. The moon was getting low and thin clouds were passing across her, but still t…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 8… hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been--if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left i…Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 1"What an extraordinary place!" cried Lucy. "All those stone animals--and people too! It's--it's like a museum."Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 3…ne rabbit on his right, and rushed on to two centaurs. But at that moment Lucy said,Open passage →
Chapter XVII · paragraph 1…ead they either gave themselves up or took to flight. The next thing that Lucy knew was that Peter and Aslan were shaking hands. It was strange to her to see Peter looking as he looked now--…Open passage →
Chapter XVII · paragraph 4"Quick, Lucy," said Aslan.Open passage →

The Horse and His Boy7 cited passages⌄

Chapter IV · paragraph 40…at this was the very same Faun, Tumnus by name, whom Queen Susan's sister Lucy had met on the very first day when she found her way into Narnia. But he was a good deal older now for by this …Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 28"He'll find Queen Lucy," said Duffle. "And then--hullo! What's wrong with the Human? It looks pretty green. Why, I do believe it's qui…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 42… a bow across her shoulder and a quiver full of arrows at her side. ("The Queen Lucy," whispered Duffle.) But the one on the pony was Corin. After that came the main body of the army: men on ordin…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 1…asta rode right at the rear with the Giants immediately in front of them. Lucy and Edmund and Peridan were busy with their plans for the battle and though Lucy once said, "But where is his g…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 4"At Cair Paravel," said Corin. "She's not like Lucy, you know, who's as good as a man, or at any rate as good as a boy. Queen Susan is more like an ordinary grown-…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 8Presently Queen Lucy came out from the castle and joined them and King Lune said to Aravis, "My dear, here is a loving friend of our…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 9"You'd like to come and see them, wouldn't you?" said Lucy, kissing Aravis. They liked each other at once and soon went away together to talk about Aravis's bedroom and A…Open passage →

Prince Caspian22 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 1Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how they had a remarkable adv…Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 2…nd they were all rather gloomy and no-one could think of anything to say. Lucy was going to boarding school for the first time.Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 5"It gives me a queer feeling," said Lucy.Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 11"How it all comes back!" said Lucy. "We could pretend we were in Cair Paravel now. This hall must have been very like the great hall we feasted in…Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 1…ast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before. When Lucy had said--truly enough--that it was a glorious morning, there did not seem to be anything else nice to be said.…Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 4…ly meant Edmund, who couldn't yet do two lengths at the school baths, and Lucy, who could hardly swim at all.Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 13…and Queens of Narnia, and their names were Peter and Susan and Edmund and Lucy. And so they reigned for ever so long and everyone had a lovely time, and it was all because of Aslan----"Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 34… have strange help--no one can say how strange. It may have power to call Queen Lucy and King Edmund and Queen Susan and the High King Peter back from the past, and they will set all to rights. It…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 5"Please go on," said Lucy to the Dwarf.Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 8"I don't know why you shouldn't believe it," said Lucy, "if you believe in magic at all. Aren't there lots of stories about magic forcing people out of one place--out…Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 1…nded the last headland and began the final pull up Glasswater itself, and Lucy's head ached from the long hours of sun and the glare on the water. Even Trumpkin longed for the voyage to be o…Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 4Everyone except Lucy went to sleep at once. Lucy, being far less tired, found it hard to get comfortable. Also, she had forgotten ti…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 6…s she said, "to get on and finish it and get out of these beastly woods". Lucy was far too tired and miserable to have any opinion about anything. But as there was no dry wood to be had, it …Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 7…ed up. I think I have explained before how Narnia was altering them. Even Lucy was by now, so to speak, only one-third of a little girl going to boarding school for the first time, and two-t…Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 1When the whole party was finally awake Lucy had to tell her story for the fourth time. The blank silence which followed it was as discouraging as anything …Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 3… isn't anything to see. She's been dreaming. Do lie down and go to sleep, Lucy."Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 34…here ever was a High King Peter and a Queen Susan and a King Edmund and a Queen Lucy, then either they have not heard us, or they cannot come, or they are our enemies----"Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 1…as they finished their meal, "Aslan and the girls (that's Queen Susan and Queen Lucy, Caspian) are somewhere close. We don't know when he will act. In his time, no doubt, not ours. In the meantime…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 44… the Maenads--his fierce, madcap girls--and Silenus were still with them. Lucy, fully rested, jumped up. Everyone was awake, everyone was laughing, flutes were playing, cymbals clashing. Ani…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 45"What is it, Aslan?" said Lucy, her eyes dancing and her feet wanting to dance.Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 6"Now, Lucy," said Aslan.Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 7Lucy had her diamond bottle out in a moment. Though only a drop was needed on each of Reepicheep's wounds, the wound…Open passage →

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader31 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 3…larence disliked his cousins the four Pevensies, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. But he was quite glad when he heard that Edmund and Lucy were coming to stay. For deep down inside him he like…Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 4Edmund and Lucy did not at all want to come and stay with Uncle Harold and Aunt Alberta. But it really couldn't be helped. Fath…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 1"Ah, there you are, Lucy," said Caspian. "We were just waiting for you. This is my captain, the Lord Drinian."Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 3"Where is Eustace?" asked Lucy.Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 2Lucy, who had been talking to Rhince on the poop, came pattering down the ladder and raced forward. As she went she …Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 3"Same old Felimath! Same old Doorn," said Lucy, clapping her hands. "Oh--Edmund, how long it is since you and I saw them last!"Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 41"We're here, we're here, Caspian," cried Lucy and Edmond together and, "At your service, Sire," piped Reepicheep from another corner. They had all been sold …Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 2The next few days were delightful. Lucy thought she was the most fortunate girl in the world, as she woke each morning to see the reflections of the su…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 3…en he remembered what he was doing he usually won. But every now and then Lucy won because the Mouse did something quite ridiculous like sending a knight into the danger of a queen and castl…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 6Something was crawling. Worse still, something was coming out. Edmund or Lucy or you would have recognised it at once, but Eustace had read none of the right books. The thing that came out …Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 13… new world which he had so foolishly stumbled into through the picture in Lucy's bedroom at home. "They don't have any tax here," he said. "And you don't have to give treasure to the governm…Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 6"Or perhaps," said Lucy, "this is the Lord Octesian, turned into a dragon--under an enchantment, you know."Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 8"Are you the Lord Octesian?" said Lucy to the dragon, and then, when it sadly shook its head, "Are you someone enchanted--someone human, I mean?"Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 5…nd Edmund said he wished they could have gone to America with Susan. Then Lucy looked out of the stern windows and said:Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 9"And one's just disappeared," said Lucy.Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 4Almost as soon as they entered this path Lucy noticed that she had a little stone in her shoe. In that unknown place it might have been wiser for her to ask …Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 16Lucy knew there was no time to sit puzzling as to what these invisible creatures might be. As soon as the thumping n…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 3…k like it," said Edmund. "But don't put the idea of the grasshoppers into Lucy's head. She's not too keen on insects; specially big ones."Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 4… even "Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?" And Lucy could not help looking at the dark yawning entrance to the foot of the staircase--she could see it from where s…Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 1Lucy followed the great Lion out into the passage and at once she saw coming towards them an old man, barefoot, dres…Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 7"Nay," said the Lion, with a little half growl that meant (Lucy thought) the same as a laugh. "I should frighten them out of their senses. Many stars will grow old and come to…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 1…ish, except that once there were whales spouting a long way to starboard. Lucy and Reepicheep played a good deal of chess at this time. Then on the thirteenth day Edmund, from the fighting-t…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 9Lucy and Eustace didn't speak but they felt very glad inside at the turn things seemed to be taking. But all at once…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 1…t new constellations which no one had ever seen in Narnia and perhaps, as Lucy thought with a mixture of joy and fear, no living eye had seen at all. Those new stars were big and bright and …Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 2…le hills with slopes like pillows. An attractive smell came from it--what Lucy called "a dim, purple kind of smell", which Edmund said (and Rhince thought) was rot, but Caspian said, "I know…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 1… It carried no light but light seemed to come from it. As it came nearer, Lucy saw that it was like an old man. His silver beard came down to his bare feet in front and his silver hair hung …Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 2… could write down the song, but no one who was present could remember it. Lucy said afterwards that it was high, almost shrill, but very beautiful, "A cold kind of song, an early morning kin…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 1… twice, if not three times, its usual size. And every morning (which gave Lucy the strangest feeling of all) the huge white birds, singing their song with human voices in a language no one k…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 2"How beautifully clear the water is!" said Lucy to herself, as she leaned over the port side early in the afternoon of the second day.Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 1…d distracted his attention, and before he remembered the Sea People again Lucy and Drinian had taken him aside and warned him not to mention what he had seen.Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 2…ding over a part of the sea which seemed to be uninhabited. No one except Lucy saw anything more of the People and even she had only one short glimpse. All morning on the following day they …Open passage →

The Last Battle11 cited passages⌄

Chapter V · paragraph 25…d: a lot of wagons chained together--and the Professor and Aunt Polly and Lucy came with us. We wanted to keep together as long as we could. Well there we were in the train. And we were just…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 29…on't think he can use them. When the two other Pevensies--King Edmund and Queen Lucy--were last here, Aslan said they would never come to Narnia again. And he said something of the same sort to th…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 49… of wisdom. "And this is my brother, king Edmund: and this my sister, the Queen Lucy."Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 7…g how funny it was that our people were probably in the same train though Lucy didn't know about it----"Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 9"I mean my Father and Mother--Edmund's and Lucy's and mine."Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 7…ot the great flaming globes they are in ours. They are people (Edmund and Lucy had once met one). So now they found showers of glittering people, all with long hair like burning silver and s…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 26"So," said Peter, "Night falls on Narnia. What, Lucy! You're not crying? With Aslan ahead, and all of us here?"Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 15…nest face that if you had seen him you would have done just what Jill and Lucy did--rushed forward and put your arms round his neck and kissed his nose and stroked his ears.Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 17"You'll find it will be all right when you really do," said Queen Lucy.Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 10"Isn't it wonderful?" said Lucy. "Have you noticed one can't feel afraid, even if one wants to? Try it."Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 25Then Tirian saw King Peter and King Edmund and Queen Lucy rush forward to kneel down and greet the Mouse and they all cried out, "Reepicheep!" And Tirian breathed fast w…Open passage →