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I stood among them like a tumor at a birthday party: silent, uninvited. Likely fatal.
“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'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. 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 wont' 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...”
― His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
― His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
“This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."
Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
― Hamlet
Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
― Hamlet
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