The Subtle Knife is the second part of the trilogy that began with The Golden Compass. That first book was set in a world like ours, but different. This book begins in our own world.
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It...
Now, I want to get going, but I’ve only got one leg. Could you find one?
Mas o que é melhor, almejar a pureza absoluta e fracassar completamente. ou fazer concessões e ter sucesso, mesmo que parcial?
Lyra ook niet.''Elfenmelk,' zei ze. 'Wat doet dat met je? Is ze nu ook een elfje?
Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act.To be myself, I have to put on an act, Ginny said bitterly.What's that mean?It means I don't know who I am.
Il n'y a pas d'ailleurs
I've just read it so much, it memorized itself.
I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.
Death is going to die.
But it didn’t seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.
And for most of that time, wisdom has had to work in secret, whispering her words, moving like a spy through the humble places of the world while the courts and palaces are occupied by her enemies.
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and e...
This is a different kind of knowing.… It’s like understanding, I suppose.…
There was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism. We see a similar reaction in painting and in music. It's a...
There are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.
The pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them
Gyropters will arrive shortly after the zeppelins. In accordance with your orders, the Lady
You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.
Y durante buena parte del tiempo, la sabiduría ha tenido que trabajar en secreto, susurrando sus palabras, moviéndose como un espía a través de los lugares humildes del mundo mientras las cortes y los...