She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.
She had been hurt too when they pulled apart; one day, perhaps, they'd be able to talk about it....
Perhaps some particles move backward in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don’t understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are.
Much ingenious interpretation of story is little more than seeing pleasing patterns in the sparks of a fire, but it does no harm.
Make a noise in there and I won’t help you. You’re on your own.
Lyra wanted to talk to the bear, and if he had been human, she would already be on familiar terms with him; but he was so strange and wild and cold that she was shy, almost for the first time in her l...
Lyra marvelled at the effect hope could have.
I’ll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart.
It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your dæmon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. And she knew it was the same for him....
In fact, these possibility collapses happen at the level of elementary particles, but they happen in just the same way: one moment several things are possible, the next moment only one thing happens,...
In fact, it was that which killed him, to his great surprise.
If you wanted to divert a mighty river into a different course, and all you had was a single pebble, you could do it, as long as you put the pebble in the right place to send the first trickle of wate...
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 want to live with you forever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life till I die, years and years and years away. I don’t want a memory, just a memory
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...
I felt as if something all passionately believed in depended on carrying on with something I didn't.
How can knowing something be sinful?
He was liked when noticed, but not noticed much, and that did him no harm either.
Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fa...
Good and Evil are names for what people do, not for what they are...stopped believing there was a power of good and evil. That they were outside of us...People are too complicated for labels.