The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength

by C.S. Lewis

Moreover, he knew nothing yet well enough to see it: you cannot see things till you know roughly what they are.

It was necessary, and the necessary was always possible.

Death is not preceded by dread nor followed by corruption.

Money, in fact, would provide the means of saying encore in a voice that could not be disobeyed.

Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there is a darker ignorance that comes from doing it, as men by sleeping lose the knowledge of sleep.

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.

“Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it as you grow up.

“There’s such a thing as loyalty,” said Jane. MacPhee, who had been carefully shutting up the snuffbox, suddenly looked up with a hundred covenanters in his eyes. “There is, Ma’am,” he said. “As you get older you will learn that it is a virtue too important to be lavished on individual personalities.”