The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

"Beast!" muttered Polly.
"The last great battle," said the Queen, "raged for three days here in Charn itself. For
three days I looked down upon it from this very spot. I did not use my power till the last
of my soldiers had fallen, and the accursed woman, my sister, at the head of her rebels
was halfway up those great stairs that lead up from the city to the terrace. Then I waited
till we were so close that we could see one another's faces. She flashed her horrible,
wicked eyes upon me and said, "Victory." "Yes," said I, "Victory, but not yours." Then I
spoke the Deplorable Word. A moment later I was the only living thing beneath the sun.",
"But the people?" gasped Digory.
"What people, boy?" asked the Queen.
"All the ordinary people," said Polly, "who'd never done you any harm. And the women,
and the children, and the animals."
"Don't you understand?" said the Queen (still speaking to Digory). "I was the Queen.
They were all my people. What else were they there for but to do my will?"
"It was rather hard luck on them, all the same," said he.
"I had forgotten that you are only a common boy. How should you understand reasons of
State? You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or for any of the common
people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our
shoulders. We must be freed from all rules. Ours is a high and lonely destiny."
Digory suddenly remembered that Uncle Andrew had used exactly the same words. But
they sounded much grander when Queen Jadis said them; perhaps because Uncle Andrew
was not seven feet tall and dazzlingly beautiful.
"And what did you do then?" said Digory.
"I had already cast strong spells on the hall where the images of my ancestors sit. And the
force of those spells was that I should sleep among them, like an image myself, and need
neither food nor fire, though it were a thousand years, till one came and struck the bell
and awoke me."
"Was it the Deplorable Word that made the sun like that?" asked Digory.
"Like what?" said Jadis
"So big, so red, and so cold."