More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
She looked as if she were trying to make her great size as small as possible.
Brande’s eyes were tight shut. He looked as if he thought keeping absolutely still would make him invisible.
“I don’t want your reason! I don’t want that! I want love. I want affection. I want a little kindness!
Brande and his dæmon could separate!
Pan left Sabine sobbing on the floor. Brande can separate! Pan thought
Cold lil fucker
“There is no such thing,” Brande muttered, looking at the floor. “No such thing as Dust?” “No—such—thing.”
“I am afraid of nothing. I do not acknowledge fear. It is not a valuable emotion. It
Lol wrpng
The facts are indifferent to belief.”
Facts dont care about ypur feelings
Or perhaps it was that a person with no visible dæmon wasn’t unimaginable.
because she needed to find Pan before she tried to reach the place where the roses grew.
Why
“Those whose dæmons have deserted them.”
“There is a sudden danger, or an emergency, some absolutely compelling reason, and you separate for the first time.
Maybe there is a secret society of dæmons too, as there is of us. Maybe they help one another, as we do. Maybe they watch us. Maybe they have forgotten all about us.
:(
It is my dread that I will see her with a man who is me, who is my double.
He is the strangest person I have ever known, and his predicament is appalling.
He too has lost his dæmon, but in a different manner….It
The hidden world exists, with its own passions and preoccupations, and from time to time its affairs leak through into the visible world. In Prague, maybe the veil between the worlds is thinner than in other places—I don’t know.”
Zlatá ulička?”
she felt for the first time how stupid she’d been to walk into this warren of ancient houses and alleyways with a man she knew nothing about.
Lol
In the little courtyard stood a man in rough clothes who gave off such heat that she couldn’t go close. He was like a furnace.
Ok i domjt know what i was expectomg but uhhhh not literal burning man
she had to gasp
Lol i think you mean involuntarily gasped. No one forced her to
She is nearby. She is in Prague. Find her for me.” She supposed he meant with the alethiometer. And she’d have to use the new method, and that would leave her prostrate with sickness. “I need to know—” she began, but shook her head, helpless.
No you are not helpless. What hes asking is difficult. Theres a difference
I am all fire, and she is all water. I long for her. She is longing for me….”
his face seemed like that of a wounded animal, aware of its suffering but of nothing that could explain it, so the whole universe was complicit in its pain and terror.
What could she do? What in the world could she do?
She already knows the answer? Try tp find the daemon with the alethiometer
The yard they were in seemed to be shared by the other buildings behind,
Hella conspicuous for flame dude
All we knew was that he was having conversations, interchanges, with immortal spirits, and what they had to say was far above our understandings.
Naturally we trusted him and thought no harm could come of what he did. We were proud to be helping with such a great task. So when he wanted to work with us, with the connection between the two of us, while Dinessa could still change, we agreed at once.
Lolllllll
he would pay a considerable sum to take my dæmon away, but he would not take me.
I guess magic would also keep them alive through separation and make sure they aren't severed
I sobbed and implored, but he was stronger, he had always been stronger,
Lol i guess stronger means his magic is impervious to fire too
I was kept from them by force
With a hose or what. Argh it would acftuly be better storytelling if concrete
Lyra said, “How do you know about me?” “In the world of the spirits your name is famous.” “What is this world of the spirits? It is nothing I know about. I don’t know what spirit is.” “Spirit is what matter does.”
an elderly woman was selling a small packet of herbs to a ravaged-looking younger woman, who might have been pregnant.
Lol abortion herbs
Lyra was somehow in charge now, though she didn’t know why.
A man told her she cwas?
his face showed him to be of middle years, proud, impatient, and strong, the master of considerable intellectual force. He didn’t seem to have seen her. For a moment she was reminded of her own father, but she moved away from that thought at once,
Ok
It was all happening too quickly for anyone to stop.
Lyra's contributioj: carrying notebook and speaking at door
I arranged for you to find him and bring him here.
Lolllllll he is her dad
“Nothing is only itself.”
“Will I ever find my dæmon?” “Yes, but not in the way you think.”
It has another name: it’s sometimes called Madinat al-Qamar, the City of the Moon.”
But you will not find your dæmon without great pain and difficulty, and he will not be able to leave with you unless you make a great sacrifice.
Theres kind of a reversal gping on of a lot of previous plot points. I think its intentional but will reserve judgment forcthe execution
“By water and by land.” “Oh. So that means—what?”
You take a bost and then you walk?
The place you mean is between the desert and the wandering lake. The salt marshes and shallow streams of Lop Nor, where the watercourses shift and move about unpredictably.”
The men had had to separate from their dæmons to travel to the red building, and Strauss’s dæmon had arrived successfully, so he and she could enter; but Hassall’s dæmon hadn’t made it, though they must have found each other later.
Huh i thought they chose strauss to stay
She looked back at the cellar, where everything was alive, and where great hidden purposes were at work.
Bonneville hadn’t been hit since his elementary school days, having learnt very young that there were better ways than violence to make life miserable for his enemies,
? That seems backwards
it was a purpose that had nothing to do with her, and one that she’d never understand, even if she knew what it was.
Sweet odors, thought Lyra….To the men from the mountains, such things were anathema. To the established hierarchy of the Church, they were the mark of heavenly favor. If the religious world was going to split, it might well be over a small thing like the scent of a rose.
Lol here comes the eastern orthodox church?
she decided to go along and watch. It would be something to do.
Lol shes bored in her own book
while a choir of deep male voices sang a hymn whose length and slowness conveyed a strong impression of eternity.
Lol
