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Book: The Amber Spyglass
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Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass
with ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud … • JOHN MILTON •"
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Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass
If you thought for one moment that I would release my daughter into the care ― the care! ― of a body of men with a feverish obsession with sexuality, men with dirty fingernails, reeking of ancient sweat, men whose furtive imaginations would crawl over her body like cockroaches ― if you thought I would expose my child to that... you are more stupid than you take me for.
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Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass
...but there are fates that even the most powerful have to submit to. There is nothing I can do to help you change the way things are.
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Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass
Where did this love come from? I don't know; it came to me like a thief in the night, and now I love her so much my heart is bursting with it.
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Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass
There's others who longed to be dead when they were alive, poor souls; lives full of pain or misery; killed themselves for a chance of a blessed rest, and found that nothing had changed except for the worse, and this time there was no escape; you can't make yourself alive again.
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Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass
I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.
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Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass
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
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Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass
The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.
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Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass
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 meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all."
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Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass
I will love you forever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again . . .
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Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass
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 and years away. I don't want a memory, just a memory
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Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass
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 all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
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