She’s innocent, and she loves easily.
He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject--what a burden his life was.
We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.
Then in a dazzling moment the black form of the spy-fly hurtled out of the tin and crashed hard into the monkey’s face.
ACTRESS: Nonsense! It was an automaton controlled by the boy’s mesmeric waves as part of a plot organised by my rivals.
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
If I have to die to do what’s proper, then I will, and be happy while I do.
Probly.
The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.
I wish I’d seen, as I was writing it, that it would be much more effective if he motivation were love; that he does these terrible things out of sheer compassion. He’s killing people in order to save...
They looked as frail and doomed as a dam of little twigs and tiny pebbles trying to hold back the Mississippi. But they were trying, all the same. They’d go on trying till the end of everything.
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.The reason for that is that in adult literary fiction, stories are there...
She wasn't sure what she wanted to do, except that she knew that if she fooled around for long enough, without fretting, or nagging herself, she'd find out.
But what matters is not the similarities your imagination finds, but the similarities that are implicit in the image, and they are not necessarily the same. I have noticed that the more imaginative re...
For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.
Nevertheless, he understood: this was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them.
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. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over...
Oh, Will, she said, What can we do? Whatever can we do? I want to live with you forever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life till I die, years and years...
Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That’s original sin.
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