José Bernardo

“I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“David never said, "I have fasted," or, "I have kept the vigil," or "I have stretched out naked on the ground," but, "I humbled myself, and quickly the Lord saved me.”
― John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent

“For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin