Till we have faces Quotes

9 quotes from 3 authors

C.S. Lewis’s novel ‘Till We Have Faces’ sparks reflections on love, sacrifice, and the masks we wear. The nine passages gathered from three distinct writers explore how the story’s mythic lens reveals inner truth, the tension between appearance and reality, and the transformative power of honesty.

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“To love, and to lose what we love, are equally things appointed for our nature. If we cannot bear the second well,…

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Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

C. S. Lewis

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“It burned me from within. It quickened; I was with book, as a woman is with child.”

C.S. Lewis

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There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite,…

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Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you…

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“Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can…

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“I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug…

C.S. Lewis

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When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at…

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“The complaint was the answer. To have heard myself making it was to be answered. Lightly men talk of saying what they…

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