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Sound bites of the best quotes from the 1993 film Shadowlands.

Actors: Anthony Hopkins (C. S. Lewis), Debra Winger (Joy Davidman), Edward Hardwicke (Warren Lewis), Joseph Mazzello (Douglas Gresham)

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11 So reading is a waste of time? -No, it's not a waste of time, but reading is safe, isn't it? Books aren't about to hurt you.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins), Joy Davidman (Debra Winger)

12 Twice in that life, I've been given the choice. As a boy, and as a man. The boy chose safety. The man chooses suffering.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

13 When my mother died, I was your age. I thought that if I prayed for her to get better and if I really believed, she'd get better. Then, she wouldn't die. But she did. -It doesn't work. -No, it doesn't work. -I don't care.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

14 Yeah, do they have room service? -Room service? I used to think that room service was saying your prayers in bed. -Well, you can order some prayers if you want. I will take a gin and tonic.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins), Joy Davidman (Debra Winger)

15 You thought it was heaven, didn't you? -I was only a child.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins), Joy Davidman (Debra Winger)

16 And does God want us to suffer? What if the answer to that question is yes? 'Cause I'm not sure that God particularly wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to be able to love and be loved. He wants us to grow up.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

17 Give me blizzards and frozen pipes, but not this, nothing time. Not this, waiting room of the world.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

18 I've just come up against a bit of experience. Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, you learn.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

19 No, I don't want to be somewhere else anymore. Not waiting for anything new to happen. Not looking around the next corner, nor the next hill. Here now. That's enough.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

20 That's not why I pray. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God. It changes me.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

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