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“I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel,” she continued. “Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse – to be tortured for ever – I thought that must be worse… But as long as you were conscious, it would be better, wouldn’t it? Better than feeling nothing, just going into the dark, everything going out for ever and ever?”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“If there's an invisible assassin in this place, I can only imagine it's the Devil himself, I dare say he feels quite at home.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“And this country's so bloody willing to put billions into weapons and fighter jets, but when those boys come home and they've seen the shit they've seen, no one can be bothered to listen to them even for five minutes.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry