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“When you stopped believing in God, did you stop believing in good and evil?”

“No. But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. [They 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.”

CH30 - fight w/ M - velmi anticlimactic, nicméně mama Coolter nezklamala.

motivace pro děti být zvídavý nikdy nebyla morbidnější :D

CH21: Harpie

říkejte mi něco o žánrových očekáváních. Ale jop, tahle část bolinkala u srdíčka.

"The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don’t know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing."

" At first she felt that this gave her an advantage—she needed no one else—and then she realized how it cut her off from others. Perhaps all human beings were like that. And from that time on, she used one hand..."

Lyra as the original sin - in order to prevent her to sin, they commit a sin.

"He was never the creator"