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...
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...
We’ll find a way. There is a way. We just don’t know it yet. Don’t stop….
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.
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...
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importan...
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. Everyone tested it when they were gr...
There’s plenty of folk as’d like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they’re going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling...
When you're young, you do think that things last forever,
It's about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad.
Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. It was a face to be dominated by, or to fight: never a face to patron...
I see the Master as a man having terrible choices to make; whatever he chooses will do harm, but maybe if he does the right thing, a little less harm will come about than if he chooses wrong. God pres...
It'a about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad.
Lyra’s heart, revulsion struggled with compassion, and compassion won. She put her arms around the skinny little form to hold him safe.
The Dust pouring down from the stars had found a living home again, and these children-no-longer-children, saturated with love, were the cause of it all.
Una verdad referida con mala fe es peor que todas las mentiras.
We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence.
The wave function of this situation is going to collapse quite soon.
The children will come to no harm.Except for the older ones. Like that poor kid down there.Mr. Scoresby, that is the way this world works. And if you want to put an end to cruelty and injustice, you m...
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