"We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision. Even on the biological level life is not like a river but like a tree. It does not mover towards unity but away from it and the creatures grow futher apart as they increase in perfection. Good, as it ripens, become continually more different not only from evil but from other good."
"Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory...What seemed, when they entered it, to be the vale of misery turns out, when they look back, to have been a well; and where present experience saw only salt deserts, memory truthfully records that the pools were full of water."
"But there is no such thing as being only a mother. You exist as [Lucy's] mother only because you first exist as God's creature. That relation is older and closer."
"Human beings can't make one another really happy for long."
"In her they became themselves."
Second Sister
Also read: Othello
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