One might also say “We Litsy to know we‘re not alone.”
This is often misattributed to C. S. Lewis (even in one of my college textbooks!) because the character of Lewis speaks the line in William Nicholson‘s play, later adapted to film, Shadowlands, but it is wholly Nicholson‘s creation
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We read to know we're not alone.
"We read to know we're not alone."
Widely attributed as a quote by C.S.Lewis, it's actually from the play "Shadowlands" about Lewis' relationship with his wife, the American poet Joy Davidman. The film is also a must for book lovers! There's a moment when her son opens up a wardrobe at Lewis' home that makes you hold your breath, because you know *exactly* what it must feel like to be in his shoes and hope against hope to find Narnia waiting.
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
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