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Elise Fair
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Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it. I had made myself the most complicated and the
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“All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.”
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
Elise’s 2025 Year in Books
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