"you had nothing to say about it..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.”

“If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.”

“Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.”

“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”

“Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.”

“Words are animals, alive with a will of their own”

“Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.”

“One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.”

“Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.”