“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”

— C. S. Lewis · Friendship quote

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.' — C. S. Lewis quote card
Writer and scholar · 1898 – 1963

C. S. Lewis was an Irish-born scholar and writer at Oxford, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters. A close friend of Tolkien, he moved from atheism to Christianity and became one of its most popular modern interpreters.

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