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...

...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.

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 . . .

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

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...

Which made her barefaced lies all the more effective, Lord Asriel thought with disgust; she lied in the very marrow of her bones.

It might not be fair, but no one's to blame.

We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon...

There is no elsewhere

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.

She's innocent, and she loves easily.

as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

A truth referred to with bad faith is worse than all lies.

For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease. -from America: A Prophecy by William Blake

And for a good part of the time, wisdom has had to work in secret, whispering his words, moving like a spy through the humble places of the world while the courts and palaces are occupied by their...

they could discuss without quarreling and cooperate without getting in each other's way

Had he thought of that life lacked meaning and purpose for having disappeared God? Yes, I had thought about it. - But the present exists! Mary Malone

Nevertheless, he understood: this was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them.

"Aren't you afraid when you know that your death is somewhere very close?" Lyra asked. "Why should we be afraid?" If she is here, at least we can keep her under an eye.

We may sometimes be wrong, because the wrong choice is more dangerous, and we are afraid not to look coward and that is why we choose the danger.

... Everything is clear to you, you understand everything, but it is so deep that you can't get to the bottom.

Keep behind me, Metatron-wait here-Asriel is suspicious-let me lull him first. When he's off guard, I'll call you. But come as a shadow, in this small form, so he doesn't see you-otherwise, he'll just...

I was aching-all my body was aching for him, and I could tell he felt the same-and we were both almost too shy to move. Almost. But one of us did and then without any interval between-it was like a...

I can't bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel," she continued. "Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse-to be tortured forever-I thought that must be worse . . . But as long as...