Rushing

“It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all”
― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials

“So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass