“Lucy, take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.”

“Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.”

“To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.”

“You shall be my pet, and my poppet, and my dearest little duck all the days of your life.”

“My dearest Lucy,” he said, his gaze never wavering from hers, “I would die for you.”

“Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth's air.”