The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

“She immediately began, sitting quite still and using a rather different tone and style from her usual one. For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you’re taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay writing. The difference is that people want to hear stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.”
– Chapter 2, pg. 35

“Bree was not in the least trying to leave Shasta out of things, though Shasta sometimes nearly thought he was. People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them, and if you’re there you can hardly help feeling that you’re out of it.” – Chapter 3, pg. 44

“Having been brought up by a hard, closefisted man like Arsheesh, he had a fixed habit of never telling grown-ups anything if he could help it: he thought they would always spoil or stop whatever you were trying to do.”
– Chapter 5, pg. 74

“One of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.” – Chapter 9, pg. 137

“Shasta’s heart fainted at these words for he felt he had no strength left. And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.” – Chapter 10, pg. 146

“I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.”
– Chapter 10, pg. 148

So those were some of my favorite book quotes from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis.

When half a book is about some never-ending journey through a forest (or worse, desert), I find it rather boring. Riding, walking, eating and sleeping. Riding, walking, eating and sleeping. Just freaking get there already! And this

book was a tad bit more predictable than the last. Twins separated at birth? One is a prince and one is pauper? Now, that's original! At least the Christian subtext was kept to a minimum. Although, I take it C.S. Lewis has beef with the Middle East? He explains that the people of Calormen don’t like overgrown cats, so instead of killing others in the name of Aslan, they pray (and make human sacrifices) to a different being named Tash. They are basically described as an evil, dark-skinned race (with bad tasting food and turbans) who are far inferior to the decent, white-skinned inhabitants of the North. I guess we know why Aladdin never came to Narnia’s rescue…