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...
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...
Religion is, as I say, something universal and something human, and something impossible to eradicate, nor would I want to eradicate it. I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
We’ll find a way. There is a way. We just don’t know it yet. Don’t stop….
She allowed herself to dwell on the cause of this strange, apprehensive exultation that she sensed flickering at the edge of her mind: it was the rarest thing of all - a man whom she knew at once, and...
When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.
Ma tu pensa ad Adamo ed Eva come una specie di numero immaginario, come la radice quadrata di meno uno; non potrai mai vedere nessuna prova concreta della sua esistenza, ma se la includi nelle tue equ...
Because where we are is always the most important place.
And Will knew what it was to see his dæmon. As she flew down to the sand, he felt his heart tighten and release in a way he never forgot. Sixty years and more would go by, and as an old man he would s...
The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.
There is time, and there is what is beyond time. There is darkness, and there is light. There is the world and the flesh, and there is God.
Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.
You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you'll understand it later: men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love t...
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. At the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them in existence me...
Everything about this is embarrassing she said. D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was no...
Ik weet wat de Dienst Kinderbescherming is,' zei Alice.Malcolm had zijn mond vol eten, maar wist uit te brengen: 'Wat dan?'Haar dæmon zei: 'Klootzakken,' en gromde weer.
Speaking for myself, I’ve always found great intelligence in a woman a highly attractive feature.
She did not move. Nor did she scream or faint; her only actions were to draw back the hem of her dress from where it brushed the shiny dome of his skull and to breathe deeply, several times, with her...
Stories don’t teach us to be good; it isn’t as simple as that. They show us what it feels like to be good, or to be bad. They show us people like ourselves doing right things and wrong things, acting...
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