Andrew Barbin

“Patriotism has then, many faces. Those who would reject it entirely do not seem to have considered what will certainly step—has already begun to step—into its place.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on still having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world’s garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“There's just this part of me that has to wallow, the part that cues up Les Miserables when I'm sad. I can't help it.”
― Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera

“But the man-moulders of the new age will be armed with the powers of an omnicompetent state and an irresistible scientific technique; we shall get at last a race of conditioners who really can cut out all posterity in what shape they please. [...] It is not that they are bad men. They are not men at all. Stepping outside the Tao, they have stepped into the void. Nor are their subjects necessarily unhappy men. They are not men at all: they are artefacts. Man's final conquest has proved to be the abolition of Man.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man