Landan

“He hedged. “I expect it is like me as I look to your people,” he said. “It is not how they would draw me in my own world.” “No,” said the pfifltrigg. “I do not mean it to be too like. Too like, and they will not believe it—those who are born after.”
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

“The best poetry, then, comes in the roughest speech?” “Perhaps,” said the pfifltrigg. “As the best pictures are made in the hardest stone.”
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet

“You spoke yesterday, Lady, of clinging to the old good instead of taking the good that came.” “Yes—for a few heartbeats.” “There was an eldil who clung longer—who has been clinging since before the worlds were made.” “But the old good would cease to be a good at all if he did that.” “Yes. It has ceased. And still he clings.”
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra

“I think he would destroy all your people to make room for our people; and then he would do the same with other worlds again. He wants our race to last for always, I think and he hopes they will leap from world to world . . . always going to a new sun when an old one dies . . . or something like that.”
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet