Orual Quotes

“I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great gust of wind that wrapped out cloaks over our swords and almost over our eyes, so that we could do nothing to one another but must fight the wind itself. And that ridiculous contention, so foreign to the business we were on, set us both laughing, face to face - friends for a moment - and then at once enemies again and forever.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“But I was wrong to weep and beg and try to force you by your love. Love is not a thing to be so used.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“To be a queen-that would not sweeten the bitter water against which I had been building the dam in my soul. It might strengthen the dam, though.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“I am the Queen; I'll kill Orual too.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“I did not know then, however, as I do now, the strongest reason for distrust. The gods never send us this invitation to delight so readily or so strongly as when they are preparing some new agony. We are their bubbles; they blow us up big before they prick us.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“Thank you, child,' said I. 'I hope it is mine indeed. But Psyche, we must be serious; yes, and busy too. How have you lived? How did you escape? And oh — we mustn't let the joy of the moment put it out of our minds — what are we to do now?'
'Do? Why, be merry, what else? Why should our hearts not dance?”
― C. S. Lewis, Till we have Faces: A Myth Retold