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...
From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.
When you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.
Whatever humanness he had left felt the strangest of pleasures: that of offering eager obedience to a stronger power that was wholly right.
Swathed in an old tweed coat on which the damp had settled like a thousand tiny pearls.
Adjusting her balance like a wave rider in the Peaceable Ocean.
You shouldn’t do it if you hate it. That’s just prostitution.
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in ex...
There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. • I KINGS •
The world is a cruel place sometimes, and warm-hearted people do most of the good in it. And much of the time, they're mocked and scorned for their pains.
She lay on her bunk thinking of that savage mighty bear, and the careless way he drank his fiery spirit, and the loneliness of him in his dirty lean-to. How different it was to be human, with one’s dæ...
She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.
Perhaps we don’t mean the same thing by choice, Mr. Scoresby. Witches own nothing, so we’re not interested in preserving value or making profits, and as for the choice between one thing and another, w...
One hears all sorts of things. The question is whether they matter.
One future would close for ever as the other began to unfold.
Make a noise in there and I won’t help you. You’re on your own.
It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.
If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.
I was aching—all my body was aching for him, and I could tell he felt the same—and we were both almost too shy to move. Almost. But one of us did and then without any interval between—it was like a qu...
I guess you are, said Lee. You have a strange way about you, Dr Grumman. You ever spend any time among the witches? Yes, said Grumman. And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhe...