Elyse

“Tell them stories.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend."
"And I to see you dead.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Malcolm stared back calmly, though he felt anything but calm: if that monkey had a name, it might be Malice, he thought.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage