Landan

“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

“The compromise I made was not an easy thing to do It was either you or me and I chose you Although far from a joker you spoke in wry, wry riddles I could’ve given you so much but you wanted so little I thought you might supply some tenderness I lacked But out of all the things I offered you took my breath away And now I want it back”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“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 suppose all that stuff about infinity and eternity means that you think you are justified in doing anything—absolutely anything—here and now, on the off chance that some creatures or other descended from man as we know him may crawl about a few centuries longer in some part of the universe.”
― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet