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...
Each kiss was nearer to the last one of all.
It's about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad.
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.
Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
When you're young, you do think that things last forever,
We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aur...
This is a deep and uncomfortable paradox, which will not have escaped you; we can only defend democracy by being undemocratic. Every secret service knows this paradox.
I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
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...
Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all
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...
Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of...
Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.
Theology
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. Every atom of me an...
But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till t...
It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right to spend their life without being offended. Nobod...
Because he's Will