I am presently making up for the sin of not having read The Chronicles of Narnia in my childhood by attempting to read the first three novels before heading home to Belfast for Christmas. It's a task that I must say has been rather pleasant, particularly because of Lewis's quotability and wonderful turn of phrase. Indeed, I am now finally reading years of quotations that I've heard in sermons in context! Anyway, I'm coming near the end of this mini-aim (I do intend to read the rest soon, but we want to go and see "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" in the cinema when in Ireland, and I didn't want to do that without reading the books...), and came across what is my favourite so far:
"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.""Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of."
Just a wonderful way of putting it. I do feel a desire to revisit a lot of CS Lewis books past enjoyed in the near future...
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