A Quote…
‘”I have always—at least, ever since I can remember—had a kind of longing for death.”
“Ah, Psyche, have I made you so little happy as that?”
“No, no, no,” she said. “You don’t understand. Not that kind of longing. It was when I was happiest that I longed most. It was on happy days when we were up there on the hills, the three of us, with the wind and the sunshine…where you couldn’t see Glome or the palace. Do you remember? The colour and the smell, and looking across at the Grey Mountain in the distance? And because it was so beautiful, it set me longing, always longing. Somewhere else there must be more of it. Everything seemed to be saying, Psyche, come! But I coulodn’t (not yet) come and I didn’t know where I was to come to. It almost hurt me. I felt like a bird in a cage when the other birds of its kind are flying home…
…..The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing—to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from—my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all to meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the end and wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you see now—?”
Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
EMackenzie said,
June 16, 2010 at 1:32 am
Oh can we please please have a mini you-plus-me book club and read this book? It was so good that it knocked me over, as in, whattheheckjusthappened. And I’ve been dying to read it ever since!
Ps I think I packed it yesterday grrrr.
gracesufficient said,
June 16, 2010 at 4:34 am
Um, yes PLEASE! Most people either hate the book or love it, and I love it…so much that I am reading it for the third time right now which I NEVER do with novels. I am always dying for someone to chat with me about its deepness!!