Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

—C.S. Lewis

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

—C.S. Lewis

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

—C.S. Lewis

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

—C.S. Lewis

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

—C.S. Lewis

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

—C.S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

—C.S. Lewis

If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.

—C.S. Lewis

We read to know we are not alone.

C.S. Lewis

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

C.S. Lewis