Theology and Faith of a Great Man

“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers any more. Only the life I have lived.

Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety,

 the man chooses suffering.
The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.”

~from Shadowlands, a movie based on the part of life when Lewis meets and marries Joy Gresham.