I felt as if something all passionately believed in depended on carrying on with something I didn't.
Hepimiz kadere tabiyiz, ama hepimiz sanki değilmişiz gibi hareket etmeliyiz. dedi Cadı. Yoksa umutsuzluktan ölürüz.
Being cheerful starts now, Will thought as hard as he could, but it was like trying to hold a fighting wolf still in his arms when it wanted to claw at his face and tear out his throat; nevertheless,...
Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries.
Anything that was associated with human workmanship and human thought was surrounded by Shadows.…
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...
Por él habría cambiado mi naturaleza. Me habría olvidado del titilar de las estrellas y de la música de la aurora, no habría vuelto a volar en mi vida (...)pero uno no puede cambiar lo que es, lo únic...
É sagrado e justo o massacre dos opressores — sempre foi. Dize-me se nós, os pobres, não somos oprimidos pelos ricos?
The pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.
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...
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.
When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.
What is that other universe? she said. One of uncountable billions of parallel worlds. The witches have known about them for centuries, but the first theologians to prove their existence mathematicall...
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, said the witch, or die of despair.
Was I wrong? Yes, of course. But you had no choice. I must have. No, you had to do it. If you hadn’t done it, you’d have felt feeble. It shouldn’t be about how we feel—guilty, feeble— No, and it isn’t...
There’s another difference between us, Mr. Scoresby. A witch would no sooner give up flying than give up breathing. To fly is to be perfectly ourselves.
The temperature had disturbed the insects, and a cloud of midges made every outline hazy.
The powers of this world are very strong. Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
The idea hovered and shivered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking a...
The Golden Compass forms the first part of a story in three volumes. The first volume is set in a universe like ours, but different in many ways. The second volume is set in the universe we know. The...