Are we dead now? Will said to the boatman.Makes no difference, he said. There's some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a mistake, so...
And then what? said her daemon sleepily. Build what?The Republic of Heaven, said Lyra.
And then Serafina understood something for which witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait for thousands of years and travel vast distances in orde...
And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait for thousands of years and travel vast distances in...
And that was how sin came into the world, he said, sin and shame and death. It came the moment their daemons became fixed. But... Lyra struggled to find the words she wanted: but it en't true, is it?...
And she sobbed so passionately he thought that hearts really did break, and hers was breaking now, for she fell to the ground wailing and shuddering, and Pantalaimon beside her became a wolf and howle...
And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their...
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
Alexander was given a reward, and he went on to become a great hunter of atheists and pagans.
A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.
His face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.
War is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe.
Panserbjørne
Obsequious submissiveness to the religious authorities, and ultimately to Geneva.
Nor that she saw them as human-formed only because her eyes expected to. If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of...
Her. That’s the duty of the old, said the Librarian, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
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...
He came awake like someone struggling to swim to the surface of a lake of laudanum, where the strongest delights were the deepest and there was nothing above but cold and fear and duty.
You’ll be much more impressive if you stay silent and mysterious.
You're a bloodthirsty character, aren't you?I don't know, she said honestly. I've never had the chance to find out. I'm pretty sure I would fight if I had to, though. I wouldn't give in, or flinch and...