We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.

Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.

Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.

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