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"Confession: I am skipping over the verse at the beginning of each chapter, even though I can tell it's going to be integral to a later reveal in the story. It's like the songs written out in Tolkien and other such works, I just can't be bothered." — 8 hours, 8 min ago
"Confession: I am skipping over the verse at the beginning of each chapter, even though I can tell it's going to be integral to a later reveal in the story. It's like the songs written out in Tolkien and other such works, I just can't be bothered." — 8 hours, 8 min ago
It was still white, and it still glowed under the moon, and the cobbles were still as rounded as old skulls, and the leaves still looked like splashes of blood across the stones, but Rhea felt better. She was still going somewhere terrible,
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“I will love you for ever, 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…”
― The Amber Spyglass
― The Amber Spyglass
“As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.”
― His Dark Materials
― His Dark Materials
“I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.
[Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]”
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[Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]”
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“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
― The Amber Spyglass
― The Amber Spyglass
“I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.”
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The Sword and Laser
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