01UndatedLewis spoke for almost every member when he said, "There is no sound I like better than adult male laughter.Philip Zaleski / quote ↗
03UndatedShe had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.Philip Zaleski / quote ↗
04UndatedThis is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.Philip Zaleski / quote ↗
05UndatedC.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization," "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" – a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.Philip Zaleski / quote ↗
06UndatedThe Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.Philip Zaleski / quote ↗
08UndatedHe loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.Philip Zaleski / quote ↗
09UndatedCharles Williams loved his son with reservations, complaining that "a child is a guest of a somewhat inconsistent temperament, rather difficult to get rid of, almost pushing; a poor relation rather than a pleasant kind.Philip Zaleski / quote ↗
10UndatedWilliams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.Philip Zaleski / quote ↗
