C. S. Lewis Quotes in Shadowlands (1993)

Harry: But she's not...

C. S. Lewis: Not my wife. No, how could she be? I'd have to love her, wouldn't I? She'd have to be more important to me than anything in the World. I'd have to be suffering the torments of the damned. The thought of losing her...

Harry: I'm so sorry, Jack. I didn't know.

C. S. Lewis: Neither did I, Harry.

Harry: Christopher can scoff, Jack, but I know how hard you've been praying; and now God is answering your prayers.

C. S. Lewis: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.

C. S. Lewis: Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

[mourning Joy's passing]

Douglas Gresham: [sobbing] I sure would like to see her again.

C. S. Lewis: [also sobbing] Me too.

C.S. Lewis: Have you got any cranberry sauce, Mrs. Young?

Mrs. Young: Cranberry sauce, what's that?

C.S. Lewis: Well, it's a sauce made from... cranberries.

Mrs. Young: Well, you find me some cranberries, Mr. Lewis, and I'll sauce them.

C.S. Lewis: He comes; he sleeps; he goes. So the plot thickens.