Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without thinking twice about it, just like you followed Roger; and that would be two lives gone for nothing, my life wasted like yours. No, we should spend our whole lifetimes together, good long busy lives, and if we can't spend them together, we... we'll have to spend them apart.

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?