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- “That’s the duty of the old,” said the Librarian, “to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.”
- “Where are you going, all alone like this?”“Going to meet my father.”“And who’s he?”“He’s a murderer.”“He’s what?”“I told you, he’s a murderer. It’s his profession. He’s doing a job tonight. I got his clean clothes in here, ’cause he’s usually all covered in blood when he’s finished a job.”“Ah! You’re joking.”“I en’t.”The lemur uttered a soft mewing sound and clambered slowly up behind the man’s head, to peer out at her. She drank her coffee stolidly and ate the last of her sandwich.“Goodnight,” she said. “I can see my father coming now. He looks a bit angry.”
- well that's a killer excuse
- You’ll want to grow up like all the other girls. Anyway, there’s compensations for a settled form.”“What are they?”“Knowing what kind of person you are. Take old Belisaria. She’s a seagull, and that means I’m a kind of seagull too. I’m not grand and splendid nor beautiful, but I’m a tough old thing and I can survive anywhere and always find a bit of food and company. That’s worth knowing, that is. And when your dæmon settles, you’ll know the sort of person you are.”“But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don’t like?”“Well, then, you’re discontented, en’t you? There’s plenty of folk as’d like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they’re going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.”But it didn’t seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.
- Finally they bought a waterproof cape that enveloped her completely, made of semitransparent seal intestine.
- well that's just gross / skip forward to later in the book where she eats a raw seal kidney, still warm, the seal had just been killed yuck
- Being a practiced liar doesn’t mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it’s that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.
- The last moment in her complete life was going to be the worst by far.
- Lyra wondered how she had ever, ever, ever found this woman to be so fascinating and clever.
- “We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die of despair.
- Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra.
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