The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials #3)

by Philip Pullman

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. We’re more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

“our business is to keep promises, no matter how difficult they are.

You are a cesspit of moral filth.”

You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

“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…”

And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams… And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we’ll be joined so tight…”

We shouldn’t live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.”