“Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.”
― Blue Horses: Poems
― Blue Horses: Poems
“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
“We aren't here to eat, we are being eaten.
Come, pretty girl. Let us devour our lives.”
― When My Brother Was an Aztec
Come, pretty girl. Let us devour our lives.”
― When My Brother Was an Aztec
“I confuse instinct for desire—isn’t bite also touch?”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
“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
Daria’s 2025 Year in Books
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