So much love for this book! It speaks directly to my faith and my relationship with God, but also provides such a beautiful story.

“... There were planets of unbelievable majesty, and constellations undreamed of: there were celestial sapphires, rubies, emeralds, and pinpricks of burning gold...”

Easily one of the most beautifully written books I have ever read.. this is but one example of the breathtaking imagery this book contains. If Narnia is religious allegory for written for children, this is the equivalent for adults. Each re-read it just gets better and better.

“They were astonished at what he had to tell them of human history — of war, slavery, and prostitution.
‘It is because they have no Oyarsa,‘ said one of the pupils.
‘It is because every one of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,‘ said Augray.
‘They can not help it,‘ said the old sorn. ‘There must be rule, yet how can creatures rule themselves? Beasts must be ruled by hnau and hnau by eldila and eldila by Maleldil.” (p110)

“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmān, as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing. The séroni could say it better than I say it now. Not better than I could say it in a poem. What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure, as the crah is the last part of a poem.” (p76)