Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- — C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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