Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out …

C. S. Lewis
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Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it? ✨ C.S. Lewis (2012). A Grief Observed, p.11, Faber & Faber
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