Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the rou...
That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
She’s mad. Best leave her be, in case it’s catching.
Nothing is just anything.
It'a about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad.
Because where we are is always the most important place.
I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.
With no more weight than a shadow.
Well, said Mary, love is ferocious, too.
Waste of time, said the leper. There's a dozen or more beggars who come here every day, pretending to be cripples, hiring themselves out to the holy men. A couple of drachmas and they'll swear they've...
There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.
That is a question with too complicated an answer.
Sunlight shining on the fur of a golden monkey…
Stories aren't made of language: they're made of something else. A little earlier I said that stories were about life; perhaps they're made of life.
Lyra marvelled at the effect hope could have.
Ever since Pope John Calvin had moved the seat of the Papacy to Geneva and set up the Consistorial Court of Discipline, the Church’s power over every aspect of life had been absolute.
But you cannot change what you are, only what you do.
We’ll find a way. There is a way. We just don’t know it yet. Don’t stop….
Suppose it never stops? she whispered.The gyptian man didn't say it'd do that. Just that there was going to be a flood.