The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)

by Philip Pullman

Lyra clumsily collected her story and shook it into order as if she were settling a pack of cards ready for dealing.

South. To strike a day too soon is as bad as striking a hundred miles off. To be sure, there’s a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you’re a doing what I always warned you agin: you’re a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do.

comes. And the time will come under judgment. Not under passion.

And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they’re going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.”

But she must fulfill this destiny in ignorance of what she is doing, because only in her ignorance can we be saved.

Interesting in order to release freewill must be suppressed?

It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your dæmon was pulling at the link between

you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. And she knew it was the same for him. Everyone tested it when they were growing up: seeing how far they could pull apart, coming back with intense relief.

all she saw was right and wrong.

Many good liars have no imagination at all; it’s that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

Truth comes from the imagination? Or ability to perceive it?

I’m speaking as a practical man with a living to earn. I can’t afford to get busted up or shot to pieces without some kind of compensation agreed to in advance.

Han Solo

“Oh, I like choice, though,”

Witches own nothing, so we’re not interested in preserving value or making profits, and as for the choice between one thing and another, when you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

Monasticish, no value to temporal things, owning nothing; traditionish - hundreds of years knowledge passed down

we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not it is right to fight.

What does make something right?

But I chose it, you see. It was my own free choice. Which is why I find this notion of a war I ain’t been told nothing about kinda troubling.”

Lee - choice, freedom, retirement Bear - honor, pride Witches - flying, non-materialistic,

“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die of despair.

So free will is a masquerade?

she is destined to bring about the end of destiny.

The universes will all become

nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...”

Is that what we are now? Is that the fate of Christians?

something

more than possible that I might be wrong.”

“Whatever they were doing at Bolvangar, we felt it was wrong with all our hearts.

What constituted

there are secrets even from the most high.”

wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the Aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It’s worth being cold for that.”

I heard how broken he was after that, and how his wisdom grew,

evidence for original sin.

If it were truly a reflection of “original” sin, it would be with the children from birth as well - the doctrine of original sin from the Catholic-Protestant perspective is that everyone is born with it. ORTHODOX doctrine is that everyone is infected as with a sickness but not the culpability of sin. We CAN choose not to sin. This alone doesn’t save us, but Adam and Eve’s sin does not condemn us.

world. Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That’s original sin. And I’m going to destroy it. Death is going to die.”

for the air seemed to be full of dark intentions, like the forms of thoughts not yet born.