Ryl

“...in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, He relies on the troughs even more than the peaks; some of His special favourites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than anyone else.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“...the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“All she wants is a cup of tea properly made, or an egg properly boiled, or a slice of bread properly toasted. But she never finds any servant or any friend who can do these simple things "properly" -- because her "properly" conceals an insatiable demand for the exact, and almost impossible, palatial pleasures which she imagines she remembers from the past; a past described by her as "the days when you could get good servants" but known to us as the days when her senses were more easily pleased and she had pleasures of other kinds which made her less dependent on those of the table.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“You and I aren't going to spend our lives together," ... "But I finally understand that that doesn't take away any of the beauty of the fact that we were right for each other once.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Train Stories: Twelve Stories of Trains and Graffiti