My daughter! cried Lord Asriel, exulting. Isn’t it something to bring a child like that into the world? You’d think it was enough to go alone to the king of the armored bears and trick his kingdom out...
Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.
Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, That's the last of 'em Lee.He said, or thought, Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we.She said, We held 'em o...
JACK: I don’t understand why you feel like an onion.
I’m just trying to wake up - I’m so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn’t care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake…
In some lights they were hardly there at all, just visible as a drifting quality in the light, a rhythmic evanescence, like veils of transparency turning before a mirror.
I have suffered enough. Oh, there is more suffering to come. We have a thousand years of experience in this Church of ours. We can draw out your suffering endlessly. Tell us about the child, Mrs. Coul...
He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could t...
Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other.
Eventually, child, you will come to the land of the dead with no effort, no risk, a safe, calm journey, in the company of your own death, your special, devoted friend, who's been beside you every mome...
Did you seriously think for one moment, she said, sounding fierce now, that I would let this little baby, who has been given into our care, be taken away by three strangers on the strength of a single...
Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries.
Behind her the sun was still shining, so that every grove and every single tree between her and the storm blazed ardent and vivid, little frail things defying the dark with leaf and twig and fruit and...
A human being with no daemon was like someone without a face, or with their ribs laid open and their heart torn out; something unnatural and uncanny that belonged to the world of nightghasts, not the...
But there are fates that even the most powerful have to submit to. There is nothing I can do to help you change the way things are.
But it gradually seemed to me that I'd made myself believe something that wasn't true. I'd made myself believe that I was fine and happy and fulfilled on my own without the love of anyone else. Being...
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.
And she saw a bed of lamb’s lettuce, or rapunzel.
You’ll take some Tokay? said Hallgrimsson, sitting down after looking through the window along the rain-swept street, and then pulling the curtains across against the draft. That would be a rare pleas...
On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and pai...