When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?
You can miss a person you've never known.
I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.
A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.
Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.