THE SPACE TRILOGY - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra & That Hideous Strength: The Cosmic Trilogy

by C.S. Lewis

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

Money as a drive for more of everything else, watering down the value of things .

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.

On the other hand, you might say that he had been delivered from the rhetoric of his passions and had emerged into unassailable freedom.

Predestination and freedom were apparently identical. He could no longer see any meaning in the many arguments he had heard on this subject.

“When I wake up after Thy image, I shall be satisfied,” he said to himself.

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.

Burn!

Both were young, and if neither loved very much each was still anxious to be admired.

The Insecure stages of courtship seem to find place still in marriage.