Ashley Showalter

“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price

“When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be want what, in fact, will not make us happy.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed