More Great Divorce quotes!

In an effort to try and jog some thoughts to add to my paper, I'm gonna post a couple more of my favorite passages/quotes from CS Lewis' The Great Divorce:

(From when the travelers in the bus are getting close to Heaven after embarking from Hell): "They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but of impossibilities, some gaunt, some bloated, some glaring with idiotic ferocity, some drowned beyond recovery in dreams; but all, in one way or another, distorted and faded. One had a feeling that they might fall to pieces at any moment if the light grew much stronger. Then--there was a mirror on the end of the wall of the bus--I caught sight of my own.
And still the light grew."

"One gets glimpses, even in our country, of that which is ageless--heavy thought in the face of an infant, and frolic childhood in that of a very old man."

"'Milton was right,' said my Teacher. 'The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery. There is always something they prefer to joy--that is, to reality.'"

"There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist! There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ. Man! Ye see it in smaller matters. Did ye never know a lover of books that with all his first editions and signed copies had lost the power to read them? Or an organizer of charities that had lost all love for the poor? It is the subtlest of all the snares.”

"Human beings can't make one another really happy for very long. ...You cannot love a fellow-creature fully till you love God."

"There’s something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on.  But there’s also something it it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly.  Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is.  And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions.  It is a stronger angel, and therefore, when it falls, a fiercer devil."