And remember this: take the hard road, not the easy one. The road that leads to life is a hard one, and it passes through a narrow gate, but the road to destruction is easy, and the gate is broad. Ple...
And if we - later on - she was whispering shakily, If we meet someone we like, and if we marry them, then we must be good to them, and not make comparisons all the time and wish we were married to eac...
Als Christin hatte sie sich zugehörig gefühlt. Nach ihrem Austritt aus der Kirche war sie unendlich frei gewesen, aber auch ohne Halt in einem Universum ohne Zweck.
A genuine scientist would love the subject for itself; I think I love science for the stories that are told about it.
When all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford and Will’s would lie over each other again, like transparent images o...
When a witch offers you her love, you should take it. If you don't, it's your own fault when bad things happen to you. It's like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing can't do...
Не ви ли е страх, когато знаете, че смъртта ви е някъде съвсем наблизо? - попита Лира.- Защо трябва да ни е страх? Щом е тук, поне може да я държим под око.
¿Había pensado acaso que la vida carecía de significado y de propósito por haber desaparecido Dios? Sí, lo había pensado.- ¡Pero el presente existe!Mary Malone
They could discuss without quarreling and cooperate without getting in each other’s way,
Her, so Ama was free to imagine. One day she took some flat bread sweetened with honey and walked the three-hour journey along the trail to Cho-Lung-Se, where there was a monastery. By wheedling and p...
Because the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.
You might not have more courage, but you should be ashamed to show less.
You know the theorem of Pythagoras? The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. That’s exactly it. And is that true for every example you’ve tried? Yes.
You forget I am a woman, Your Eminence, and thus not so subtle as a prince of the Church.
Wir sind alle dem Schicksal unterworfen [...] aber wir müssen so tun, als seien wir es nicht, sonst würden wir vor Verzweiflung sterben.
Will considered what to do. 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....
Where did this love come from? I don't know; it came to me like a thief in the night, and now I love her so much my heart is bursting with it.
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 the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existenc...
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...