El caballo y el muchacho

If you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Когда Аршиш сидел дома, Шаста спрашивал: «Отец, что там, за холмом?» Если Аршиш сердился, он драл его за уши, если же был спокоен, отвечал: «Сын мой, не думай о пустом. Как сказал мудрец, прилежание – корень успеха, а те, кто задают пустые вопросы, ведут корабль глупости на рифы неудачи».

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I’m afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

Когда ты один чего-нибудь ждёшь, день кажется очень долгим.

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.

It is an old saying: see the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.

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.

Aravis 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 differences is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and hurried to appreciate them.