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“I must know when it is enough. And I must trust God — again and again I was learning and relearning to trust the truth who had entered my sons’ nursery. The rusty and decrepit habit of trusting in only myself, only abiding in my own ability to make things happen, died hard and slow.”

Book:Becoming Mrs. Lewis

Source: Becoming Mrs. Lewis

“Honestly, Joy, I don't even like writing nearly as much as you do." I stopped and starred at her, bundling my coat closer. "I couldn't live without it." "I don't believe I could either, but I don't love it as much as you do. I live for the one moment when it works. It's like a high I search for again and again, and rarely find.”

Writing Passion Career

Book:Becoming Mrs. Lewis

Source: Becoming Mrs. Lewis

“This business of dying wasn't as simple as surrender to the great light. It was real and dirty and untidy.”

Dying Illness Truth Of Life Chronic Illness

Book:Becoming Mrs. Lewis

Source: Becoming Mrs. Lewis

“Do you know the German word, sehnsucht," he asked. "Yes," I answered. "The idea of an inconsolable longing for what we don't understand. You believe that longing is for God. Or heaven. And that we can confuse it with longing for someone or something else.”

Love God Truth Longing Linguistics Eros Agape C S Lewis

Book:Becoming Mrs. Lewis

Source: Becoming Mrs. Lewis

“The fantastic and the imaginative aren't escapism . . . Good stories introduce the marvelous. The whole story, paradoxically, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion sends us back with renewed pleasure to the actual world. It provides meaning. . . It takes us out of ourselves and lets us view reality from new angles. It expands our awareness of the world.”

Stories Reading

Book:Once Upon a Wardrobe

Source: Once Upon a Wardrobe

“The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love.”

Love Stories Fiction Myth Feeling

Book:Once Upon a Wardrobe

Source: Once Upon a Wardrobe

“I'd discovered that Savannah couldn't be fully explained to those who hadn't visited it. Photos, no matter how glorious, and movies, no matter how accurate, couldn't convey the way Savannah felt - seductive and lazy, busy and slow, modern and ancient. Savannah was a contradiction and a complicated melody that could only be known by walking through it, absorbing its every sensual detail.”

Book:Surviving Savannah

Source: Surviving Savannah