#fantasy

“As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations ; but I will come the next day. Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 422”

“Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 421”

“But surely you trust God! Do you think He would let you come to harm? To be afraid is to distrust. To a girl who was frightened of traveling by train”

“And at last we've got to the end of this ideal racecourse! Now that you accept A and B and C and D , of course you accept Z .”

“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics”

“I charm in vain; for never again, All keenly as my glance I bend, Will Memory, goddess coy, Embody for my joy Departed days, nor let me gaze On thee, my fairy friend! "To my Child”

“To Her, whose children's smiles fed the narrator's fancy and were his rich reward: from the Author. Inscribed in Mrs. Lorina Liddell's copy of Alice's Adventures Under Ground ; quoted by Edward Wakeling”

“The `Why?' cannot, and need not, be put into words. Those for whom a child's mind is a sealed book, and who see no divinity in a child's smile, would read such words in vain: while for any one that has ever loved one true child, no words are needed. For he will have known the awe that falls on one in the presence of a spirit fresh from GOD's hands, on whom no shadow of sin, and but the outermost fringe of the shadow of sorrow, has yet fallen: he will have felt the bitter contrast between the haunting selfishness that spoils his best deeds and the life that is but an overflowing love”

“You have no mind to be unkind,”

“The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old. Instructions to Sir John Tenniel c.1864; quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood , The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 130”

“I belong to the first generation of Latin American writers brought up reading other Latin American writers. Before my time the work of Latin American writers was not well distributed, even on our continent. In Chile it was very hard to read other writers from Latin America. My greatest influences have been all the great writers of the Latin American Boom in literature: García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, Borges, Paz, Rulfo, Amado, etc. Isabel Allende Interview”

“Julio was never a regional writer. You could see he was Argentinian, but he was more like Borges , more universal from the very beginning. He didn’t jump from the regionalism, he wrote universally all the time...It’s not that Julio was not very Argentinian, he was very Argentinian but his works were never as local. Claribel Alegría Interview with Bomb Magazine”

“Reflections on the Fantastic”

“The only true exile is the writer who lives in his own country.”

“The snail lives the way I like to live; he carries his own home with him.”

“Translation: LOVE 77”

“Hair loss and retrieval”

“Nada está perdido si se tiene el valor de proclamar que todo está perdido y hay que empezar de nuevo. Translation: Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew.”

“I touch your mouth, I touch the edge of your mouth with my finger, I am drawing it as if it were something my hand was sketching, as if for the first time your mouth opened a little, and all I have to do is close my eyes to erase it and start all over again, every time I can make the mouth I want appear, the mouth which my hand chooses and sketches on your face, and which by some chance that I do not seek to understand coincides exactly with your mouth which smiles beneath the one my hand is sketching on you.”

“' Andábamos sin buscarnos pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos.' Translation: We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.”

“The Universal Library”

“Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv”

“The masked dyer Hakim of Merv”

“The Approach to Al”

“The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro”

“Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Universal History of Infamy [Historia universal de la infamia] (1935) Preface”

“That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. Evaristo Carriego (1930) Ch. 2”

“A Poem by Oscar Wilde”

“The Argentine Writer and Tradition”

“If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author. "To the Reader" ["A quien leyere"], preface to Fervor of Buenos Aires [ Fervor de Buenos Aires ]”

“at Rotterdam Holland attended 28 March 1958, in response to Professor Lambers summarizing approximately”

“I should say that, in addition to my tree”

“is based on rural England and not any other country in the world... The toponymy of The Shire ...is a”

“That story was the only thing I have ever done which cost me absolutely no pains at all. Usually I compose only with great difficulty and endless rewriting. I woke up one day (more than 2 years ago) with that odd thing virtually complete in my head. It took only a few hours to get down, and then copy out. About " Leaf by Niggle ", in a letter to Stanley Unwin”

“There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military victory: because, if you please, they are rattlesnakes, and don't know the difference between good and evil! (What of the writer?) The Germans have just as much right to declare the Poles and Jews exterminable vermin, subhuman, as we have to select the Germans: in other words, no right, whatever they have done. Letter”

“Nearly all marriages , even happy ones, are mistakes : in the sense that almost certainly (in a more Perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul”

“Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”

“dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends.”

“A Philologist on Esperanto”

“Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures . "A Secret Vice" (lecture, 1931) published in The Monsters And The Critics And Other Essays (1983), edited by Christopher Tolkien”

“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing. Sputnik Sweetheart”

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? Sputnik Sweetheart”

“You burn barns. I don't burn barns. There's this glaring difference, and to me, rather than say which of us is strange, first of all I'd like to clear up just what that difference is. "Barn Burning"(short story) in The Elephant Vanishes”

“Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. South of the Border, West of the Sun”

“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair. South of the Border, West of the Sun”

“likewesaid, we'lldowhatwecan. Trytoreconnectyou, towhatyouwant,”

“Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off. Dance Dance Dance”

“The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first”

“write about a particular subject in a particular way,”

“I said this one day to the doctor in charge of my case, and he told me that, in a sense, what I was feeling was right, that we are in here not to correct the deformation but to accustom ourselves to it: that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities. Just as each person has certain idiosyncrasies in the way he or she walks, people have idiosyncrasies in the way they think and feel and see things, … " In a letter from Naoko, Norwegian Wood”

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. "Is Theology Poetry?"”

“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact . "Myth Became Fact"”

“Virgil and the Subject of Secondary Epic”

“Is Criticism Possible?”

“Our English syllabus”

“Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare”

“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I shd. say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.' Letter to Arthur Greeves”

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. Letter to Arthur Greeves”

“Lewis, C. S. (1991). Hooper, Walter. ed (in English).  All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922”

“I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene : and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do”