"I nominally have [a place of my own] and am nominally master of the house, but things seldom go as I would have chosen. The truth is that the only alternatives are either solitude (with all it's miseries and dangers, both moral and physical) or else all the rubs and frstrations of a joint life. The second, even at its worst seems to me far the better."
C.S. Lewis
Letters to an American Lady
"[Senior devil Screwtape to junior devil Wormwood:] Humans who have not the gift of continence can be deterred from seeking marriage as a solution because they do not find themselves "in love," and, thanks to us, the idea of marrying with any other motive seems to them low and cynical. Yes, they think that. They regard the intention of loyalty to a partnership for mutual help, for the preservation for chastity, and for the transmission of life, as something lower than a storm of emotion."
C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
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