The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust #2)
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“There are camels,” he said.
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the Authority never wishes for his creation to be split apart. You were created with a dæmon, and he is somewhere now longing to be reunited with you. When that happens, nature will be restored a little, and the Authority will be happy.”
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“Your Tajik friends,” he said quietly, “their dæmons will have been sold.”
Stephanie
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People sell their dæmons?” “It’s poverty,” he said. “There’s a market for dæmons.
Stephanie
Well thats what happened to the fire guy
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There’s a surgical operation….Many people survive it now.
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When the children grow up, they’re not full citizens, being incomplete.
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There are men who can supply a dæmon for those who are without one. It sounds atrocious. It sounds absurd.
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They have a dæmon; she, he goes everywhere with them, appears to be close and understanding, but—” “You can tell,” said his own robin dæmon. Her voice was sweet and quiet. “They look disconnected, in some deep way. It’s very disturbing.”
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“It’s not possible,” said Lyra, “surely! Why would any dæmon agree to pretend to belong to someone else?
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Ouch Pan
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But something rules there, something attracts dæmons, maybe dæmons who’ve been severed and then escaped….It
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“There’s nothing simple about going home.” “No,” he said. “It was too easy to say.”
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“They come to me. It is a purely voluntary transaction. There are dealers, I regret to say, who buy and sell dæmons taken by force, or without consent.”
Stephanie
Liesssss
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The aim is a modus vivendi which will pass muster in normal social circumstances. The perfect oneness and sympathy that each party has lost, that they had from birth…I would be lying if I said that was always reached. But a sort of satisfactory tolerance and even, in time, affection is certainly possible.”
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the pain she felt was not in the least abated;
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Girl u ned a doc for that hand
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To Professor Gottfried Brande—”
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Oh shiiii i guess its not weird his daemon left him. Hypocrtical he'd buy another tho
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thirsty, and a bad headache added
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Duh
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“They are beings who are like humans in that they have a language and can speak, but unlike us in that if they have a dæmon, it is internal or invisible.
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So like the bears
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a familiar deep dragging ache low in her belly. Well, it was due. There was even something reassuring in it: if that part’s working, then at least my body’s still in good order, she thought.
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she lucky she didnjt hbave to worry about it being late
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they have separated their intelligences from their other faculties. And that is not an intelligent thing to do.”
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Lol
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she wouldn’t wake up till the morning was filling the sky.
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Which would be bad... Why? no one said you cant look around in the morning
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There is a great treasure, and she is the only one who can get it.
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Ok
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