THE SPACE TRILOGY - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra & That Hideous Strength: The Cosmic Trilogy
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Money, in fact, would provide the means of saying encore in a voice that could not be disobeyed.
Jèdidiah Iyaniwura
Money as a drive for more of everything else, watering down the value of things .
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Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.
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On the other hand, you might say that he had been delivered from the rhetoric of his passions and had emerged into unassailable freedom.
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Predestination and freedom were apparently identical. He could no longer see any meaning in the many arguments he had heard on this subject.
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“When I wake up after Thy image, I shall be satisfied,” he said to himself.
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Husbands were made to be talked to. It helps them to concentrate their minds on what they’re reading—like the sound of a weir.
Jèdidiah Iyaniwura
Burn!
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Both were young, and if neither loved very much each was still anxious to be admired.
Jèdidiah Iyaniwura
The Insecure stages of courtship seem to find place still in marriage.