“So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.”
― The Golden Compass
― The Golden Compass
“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
“Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.”
― The Amber Spyglass
― The Amber Spyglass
“Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.”
― Blue Horses: Poems
― Blue Horses: Poems
“I confuse instinct for desire—isn’t bite also touch?”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
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