Author: C. S. Lewis

Cites

• George MacDonald (1)
  • IN: The Great Divorce (1945) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a litde of hell in it–no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Martin Luther (1)
  • IN: The Screwtape Letters (1942) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Thomas More (1)
  • IN: The Screwtape Letters (1942) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The devil ... the prowde spirite ... cannot endure to be mocked.
    FROM: A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, (1553), Book, UK

Cited by

• James Scudamore (1)
  • IN: The Amnesia Clinic (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.
    FROM: The Magician's Nephew, (1955), Novel, UK
• Mark Billingham (1)
  • IN: Lifeless (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No one told me grief felt so much like fear.
    FROM: A Grief Observed, (1961), Book, UK
• Sabine Durrant (1)
  • IN: Remember Me This Way (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense
    FROM: A Grief Observed, (1961), Book, UK
• Ariel Lawhon (1)
  • IN: Flight of Dreams (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.
    FROM: The Four Loves, (1960), Book, UK
• Dean Koontz (2)
  • IN: Prodigal Son (2005) Fiction, Suspense, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For the power of man to make himself what he pleases means, as we have seen, the power of some men to make other men what they please.
    FROM: The Abolition of Man, (1943), Book, UK
  • IN: Dead and Alive (2009) Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am very doubtful whether history shows us one example of a man who, having stepped outside traditional morality and attained power, has used that power benevolently.
    FROM: The Abolition of Man, (1943), Book, UK
• G. M. Malliet (1)
  • IN: The Haunted Season (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Granted that miracles can occur, it is, of course, for experience to say whether one has done so on any given occasion.
    FROM: Miracles, (1960), Book, UK
• Patti Callahan Henry (1)
  • IN: Coming Up for Air (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken.If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -- safe, dark, motionless, airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
    FROM: The Four Loves, (1960), Book, UK
• Flynn Berry (1)
  • IN: Under The Harrow (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Come, what do we gain by evasion? We are under the harrow and can't escape.
    FROM: A Grief Observed, (1961), Book, UK
• Wendy Mass (1)
  • IN: Every Soul a Star (2008) Fiction, Young Adult, American
    EPIGRAPH: In our world,” said Eustace, “a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.” “Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.
    FROM: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, (1952), Novel, UK
• Hall Page, Katherine (1)
  • IN: The Body in the Wardrobe (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.
    FROM: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, (1950), Novel, UK
• Jenny B. Jones (1)
  • IN: There You'll Find Me (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
    FROM: Mere Christianity, (1952), Book, UK