--still nightime
you do not fail in obedience
through lack of love, but
have lost love because you
never attempted obedience.
-that hideous strength
(the context for this one is interesting: pg. 147)
humans want crumbs removed;
mice are anxious to remove them.
it ought never to have been a
cause for war. but you see that
obedience and rule are more like
a dance than a drill--specially
between man and woman where
the roles are always changing.
- the same.
We all have our different languages;
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You do not fail in obedience through
lack of love, but have lost love because
you never attempted obedience.
You always find that there was a time before
that point when there was more elbow room
and contrasts weren't quite so sharp; and that
there's going to be a time after that point when
there is even less room for indecision and choices
are even more mementous. Good is always getting
better and bad is always getting worse: the possibilities
of even apparent neutrality are always diminishing.
Three more good quotes from THS.. I just read that.