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.
It'a about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad.
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...
I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the...
Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.
Capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.’ You
Algunas historias son así. Cuando se les ha dado cuerda, nada las detiene; avanzan hasta alcanzar el final previsto. Aunque los personajes deseen con todas sus fuerzas modificar su destino, son incapa...
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all
Why, yes, the moment you’re born, your death comes into the world with you, and it’s your death that takes you out.
When you're young, you do think that things last forever,
We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. We
We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence.
Voltò le spalle. Dietro di loro c'erano dolore, morte e terrore; davanti dubbio, pericolo e misteri insondabili. Ma non erano soli.Così Lyra e il suo daimon voltarono le spalle al mondo in cui erano n...
Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
The steamy, noisy kitchen was the safest place in the world, it seemed to him. Safety had never been anything to think about before; it was something you took for granted, like his mother’s endless, e...
The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.
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...
The Authority considers that conscious beings of every kind have become dangerously independent, so Metatron is going to intervene much more actively in human affairs.
That's the duty of the old,' said the Librarian, 'to be anxious on the behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.'They sat for a while longer, and then parted,...