What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.
We’ll find a way. There is a way. We just don’t know it yet. Don’t stop….
Una verdad referida con mala fe es peor que todas las mentiras.
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.
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.
The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.
One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.
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...
Lyra’s heart, revulsion struggled with compassion, and compassion won. She put her arms around the skinny little form to hold him safe.
Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.
It's about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad.
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.
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...
But you cannot change what you are, only what you do.
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...
Theology
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...
We all show false faces to the world, and a good thing too, for a hundred reasons. We should be consistent with our friends and lovers, so as not to be unkind. But if in your heart you are not kind, i...
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...
The wave function of this situation is going to collapse quite soon.