She had suddenly realized something about people like this -- whether they were businessmen, policemen, civil servants, hotel proprietors, landlords, or what: it was that they didn't mean what they sa...
Shame to die with one bullet left, though.
Now, I want to get going, but I’ve only got one leg. Could you find one?
No, we're renegades, she said. Not by our choice, but by his malice. Once the church learns about this, we're done for anyway. Take every advantage we can in the meantime. Go on, take the ring and sto...
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.
Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.
Malcolm drew back towards the wall. The customer who’d spoken was called George Boatwright, a high-coloured and truculent boatman whom Mr Polstead had had to throw out of the Trout half a dozen times;...
Il n'y a pas d'ailleurs
If they turned their back on something frightening behind them and tried to get really interested in the stones and how they fitted together, or the leaves on the bush, like if only they could make th...
If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.
How do you do that? By not being human, he said. That's why you could never trick a bear. We see tricks and deceit as plain as arms and legs. We can see in a way humans have forgotten. But you know ab...
Has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?
For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease. —from America: A Prophecy by William Blake
Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it,
Ever since Pope John Calvin had moved the seat of the Papacy to Geneva and set up the Consistorial Court of Discipline, the Church’s power over every aspect of life had been absolute.
But it didn’t seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.
And was it true before Pythagoras realized it? Malcolm thought. Yes, he said. It must have been. So he didn’t invent it. He discovered it. Yes. Good. Now let’s take one of the alethiometer symbols.
And at half past nine in the evening at that restaurant table in Portugal, Mary continued, someone gave me a piece of marzipan and it all came back. And I thought: am I really going to spend the rest...
Може би понякога грешим, защото грешният избор е по-опасният, а ние се боим да не изглеждаме страхливци и тъкмо затова избираме опасността.
Your reading will be even better then, after a lifetime of thought and effort, because it will come from conscious understanding. Grace attained like that is deeper and fuller than grace that comes fr...