We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privat…

C. S. Lewis
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. ✨ The Weight of Glory. Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. ✨ The Weight of Glory. Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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