Janine

“Well, all right then. Finding out that you're an Arctic hare – that's surprising. Damn, I was surprised."
"Surprised? Why the hell were you surprised? I ain't surprised," said Hester. "Iorek's right. I always knew I had more class than a rabbit.”
― Philip Pullman, Once Upon a Time in the North

“Well now,” the Master went on. “We must think about your future, Lyra.”
His words made her shiver. She gathered herself and sat up. “All the time I was away,” Lyra said, “I never thought about that. All I thought about was just the time I was in, just the present. There were plenty of times when I thought I didn’t have a future at all. And now… Well, suddenly finding I’ve got a whole life to live, but no… but no idea what to do with it, well, it’s like having the alethiometer but no idea how to read it.”
― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials

“There's this feeling once you leave where you are from that you don't totally belong there again.”
― Aftersun (2022)

“Well, this is a mystery,” said Farder Coram, “and I’m glad I lived long enough to see it. To go into the dark of death is a thing we all fear, say what we like, we fear it. But if there’s a way out for that part of us that has to go down there, then it makes my heart lighter.”
― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials