Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

The Prince of Tides

You’re dangerous,” he says. “Why?” “Because you make me believe in the impossible

Rules of Attraction

Sylvia grabs my sleeve. “He’s a looker.” “I know. The problem is, he knows it, too.

Rules of Attraction

There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair

Rebecca

We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.

Three Day Road

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

In Tuscany

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

Then Comes Seduction

I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble.

Twelve Sharp

Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.

Thirty-Three Teeth

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

Theories and Things

This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.

Unlocked

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

You know, you’re kind of a badass.” “Please, if I had balls they’d be bigger than yours.

Wake

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Time itself made all things rare.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

Woe to Live On

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

White Night

Every girl’s dream, if she can’t have a vampire.

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves