Amy

“There, by the way, is a sentence ending with a preposition. The silly “rule” against it was invented by Dryden. I think he disliked it only because you can’t do it in either French or Latin which he thought more “polite” languages than English.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady

“At moments like these it is hard not to wish for an end to suffereing--a cancellation of it. But friends, a life without grief is hardly worth living, and someonee who is not willing too give his or her life for soomething worth more than mere living is hardly alive.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“Apropos of horrid little fat baby “cherubs”, did I mention that Heb. Kherub is from the same root as Gryphon? That shows what they’re really like!”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady

“The man looked to be about the same age as Paola, though he clearly had a harder time getting there...His nose was flat, as though it had once been broken, and his eyes were sad, as though his heart had been. He looked like a stevedore who wrote poetry.”
― Donna Leon, Death at La Fenice