When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
Philip PullmanI seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved. There was the usual teenage angst: "Nobody understands me" and "I'm the only genius in the world" and all that stuff. But that didn't get very deep.
Philip PullmanLee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.
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