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.
The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.
Speaking for myself, I’ve always found great intelligence in a woman a highly attractive feature.
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...
Nevertheless, he understood: this was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them.
Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more conc...
Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.
JACK: I don’t understand why you feel like an onion.
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.
How can knowing something be sinful?
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.
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...
Ferocious and meaningless screams.
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 live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
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.
What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.
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...
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.