Thursday, December 15, 2011

First Lines: A Grief Observed

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

Written by C. S. Lewis

Published in 1963

2 comments:

Karen said...

Wow, powerful opening. I want to write like that.

Johnnie said...

Karen, I agree with you. And it's even more powerful when you consider that this book is a compilation of notes that Lewis wrote in various notebooks. An amazing book.