You are dead- what am I speaking to?
Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.
Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn’t be human beings at all.
Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.
Imagination is a form of seeing.
When he’d sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.
Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there’s no excuse.
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
He dared to do what men and women don’t even dare to think. And look what he’s done already: he’s torn open the sky, he’s opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?
When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.
Argue with anything else, but don’t argue with your own nature.
If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.
Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?
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.
Lonely? I don’t know. They tell me this is cold. I don’t know what cold is, because I don’t freeze. So I don’t know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.
We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.
Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.