"And she never could remember; and ever..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.”

“Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.”

“Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.”

“Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”

“Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.”

“Have you thought of an ending?' 'Yes , several, and all are dark and unpleasant,' said Frodo. 'Oh , that won't do!' said Bilbo. 'Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?' 'It will do well, if it ever comes to that,' said Frodo.”

“Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.”

“I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.”

“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.”