We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Imagination is a form of seeing