É sagrado e justo o massacre dos opressores — sempre foi. Dize-me se nós, os pobres, não somos oprimidos pelos ricos?
With no more weight than a shadow.
Where there are priests, there is fear of Dust.
When you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.
There is an angel called Metatron.
Swathed in an old tweed coat on which the damp had settled like a thousand tiny pearls.
In writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and not its governor...
Because the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.
You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.
You forget I am a woman, Your Eminence, and thus not so subtle as a prince of the Church.
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 the moment all Will’s choices existed at once. But to keep them all in exi...
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...
When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.
What work do I have to do then? said Will, but went on at once, No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever yo...
What a stupid exercise, said her dæmon after five minutes. Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, said the witch, or die of despair.
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all b...
Vielleicht tun wir manchmal nicht das Richtige, weil das Falsche uns gefährlicher erscheint. Wir wollen aber nicht, dass jemand denken könnte, wir hätten Angst. Deshalb tun wir das Falsche, nur weil e...
Tony ate the rest of his pie and drank the sweet hot liquor without taking much notice of his surroundings, and the surroundings took little notice of him: he was too small to be a threat, and too sto...
To be sure, there’s a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you’re a doing what I always warned you agin: you’re a placing the satisfaction of your own feeling...