Angry Love »

Anger–no peevish fit of temper, but just, generous, scalding indignation–passes (not necessarily at once) into embracing, exultant, re-welcoming love. That is how friends and lovers are truly reconciled. Hot wrath, hot love. Such anger is the fluid that love bleeds when you cut it.

C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (San Diego: Harcourt Brace [...]