Lydia

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

“And then one babbles - "If only I could bear it, or the worst of it, or any of it, instead of her." But one can't tell how serious that bid is, for nothing is staked on it. If it suddenly became a real possibility, then, for the first time, we should discover how seriously we had meant it. But is it ever allowed?

It is allowed to One, we are told, and I find I can now believe again, that He has done vicariously whatever can be done. He replies to our babble, "You cannot and you dare not. I could and dared.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.”
― Joanna Lumley