Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted world — Cittàgazze, where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies: 12-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another’s, has also stumbled into this... read more
“When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. He could find food, and show her how to reach Oxford, and those were powers that were useful, but he might still have been untrustworthy or cowardly. A murderer was a worthy companion.”Lyra Belacqua
“There are two great powers,” the man said, “and they’ve been fighting since time began. Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.Highlighted by 86 Kindle customers
every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to.Highlighted by 66 Kindle customers
Was there only one world after all, which spent its time dreaming of others?Highlighted by 61 Kindle customers
“ ‘ . . . Capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.’ You have to get into that state of mind.Highlighted by 59 Kindle customers
Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it’s Dust both of them are obsessed by.”Highlighted by 54 Kindle customers
St. Augustine had said, “Angel is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is spirit; if you seek the name of their office, it is angel; from what they are, spirit, from what they do, angel.”Highlighted by 49 Kindle customers
“The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.”Highlighted by 45 Kindle customers
“He opened my eyes. He showed me things I had never seen, cruelties and horrors all committed in the name of the Authority, all designed to destroy the joys and the truthfulness of life.Highlighted by 38 Kindle customers
“Seems to me—” Lee said, feeling for the words, “seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.Highlighted by 32 Kindle customers
Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.Highlighted by 25 Kindle customers
1. The Cat and The Hornbeam Trees
2. Among the Witches
3. A Children's World
4. Trepanning
5. Airmail Paper
6. Lighted Fliers
7. The Rolls-Royce
8. The Tower of the Angels
9. Theft
10.The Shaman
11. The Belvedere
12. Screen Language
13. AEsahaettr
14. Alamo Gulch
15. Bloodmoss
Preceded by The Golden Compass, and followed by The Amber Spyglass.
Preceded by The Golden Compass, and followed by The Amber Spyglass.
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