and_rea’s Reviews > The Golden Compass > Status Update

“Without even having to think about it, she found her fingers moving the hand of the compass and felt her mind settling into the right meanings, like a complicated diagram in 3 dimensions. She watched it calmly, content not to know at first, but to know that a meaning was coming. And then, it began to clear…”

Ahhh, this book is so striking.

“To strike a day too soon is as bad as striking 100 miles off. […] If you give in to that passion you’re doing what I always warned you against. You’re placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do.” - John Faa (one of the best characters I’m discovering so far)