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“The other side’s got an energy that our side en’t got. Comes from their certainty about being right. If you got that certainty, you’ll be willing to do anything to bring about the end you want. It’s the oldest human problem, Lyra, an’ it’s the difference between good and evil. Evil can be unscrupulous, and good can’t. Evil has nothing to stop it doing what it wants, while good has one hand tied behind its back. To do the things it needs to do to win, it’d have to become evil to do ’em.”
― Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth

“But life was like that, wasn’t it? A never-ending series of events, the ripples of which would either push you away from people or pull you toward them.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“Yes! There is no smell like book smell.” She nodded like a woman who’d sniffed a lot of books.”
― Jenny Bayliss, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill