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“Tant qu'Ophélie aurait des scrupules, tant qu'elle agirait en accord avec sa conscience, tant qu'elle serait capable de faire face à son reflet chaque matin, elle n'appartiendrait à personne d'autre qu'elle-même.”
― Les Fiancés de l'hiver
― Les Fiancés de l'hiver
“We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.”
― The Golden Compass
― The Golden Compass
“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― The Robber Bride
― The Robber Bride
“Peut-être une des femmes que j'ai vues mortes dans les caves était ma mère, et que mon père gît momifié près d'une grille: entre eux et moi tout a été rompu, il n'y a pas de continuité et le monde dont je suis la descendante m'est totalement étranger. Je n'ai pas entendu sa musique, je n'ai pas vu sa peinture, je n'ai pas lu ses livres, sauf les quatre que j'ai trouvés dans le refuge et auxquels je n'ai pas compris grand-chose: je ne connais que la plaine caillouteuse, l'errance et la lente perte de l'espoir, je suis le rejeton stérile d'une race dont je ne sais rien, pas même si elle a disparu. Peut-être que, quelque part, l'humanité resplendit sous les étoiles, ignorant qu'une fille de son sang achève sa vie dans le silence. Nous n'y pouvons rien.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“That's the duty of the old,' said the Librarian, 'to be anxious on the behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.'
They sat for a while longer, and then parted, for it was late, and they were old and anxious.”
― The Golden Compass
They sat for a while longer, and then parted, for it was late, and they were old and anxious.”
― The Golden Compass
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