"That nameless something that had stopped his heart was Beauty."

"He was suddenly overwhelmed with the revelation that what makes life worth living is, precisely, the emotions. But, t…"

"Lewis had been his mainstay in this half-year of sounding the depths of his grief. It was he who had said that Davy's…"

"We met angrily in the dead of winter."

"If one of us likes anything, there must be something to like in it — and the other one must find it. Every single thi…"

"[Her death] saved our love from perishing in one of the other ways that love could perish. Would I not rather our lov…"

"When she was launched, Davy christened her, breaking a bottle of wine against the lovely-curving bow, and crying as t…"

"Christianity has the ring, the feel of unique truth. Of essential truth. By it, life is made full instead of empty, m…"

"A choice was necessary: and there is no certainty. One can only choose a side. So I — I now choose my side: I choose …"

"So many of the books, the best-loved ones, had been about England, and of course the poems were England itself."