Everything means something, Lyra said severely. We just have to find out how to read it.
Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affairs, so the Scholars, for their part, would have been unable to see the rich seething stew of allian...
I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.
Occasionally they would hear a harsh croak or a splash as some amphibian was disturbed, but the only creature they saw was a toad as big as Will's foot, which could only flop in a pain-filled sideways...
It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.
You are dead- what am I speaking to?
she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.
I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'
I bet you could catch bullets, she said, and threw the stick away. How do you do that?By not being human, he said. That’s why you could never trick a bear. We see tricks and deceit as plain as arms an...
So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.
She shook her head and whispered, No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!
The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.
When you stopped believing in God," he went on, "did you stop believing in good and evil?""No. But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to...
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden pas...
I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his creation.
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important plac...
I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel, she continued. Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse—to be tortured forever—I thought that must be worse . . . But as long as you...
Eve was tempted not by wealth or love but by knowledge.
Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.
To be sure, there's a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you're doing what I always warned you agin: you're a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings...