It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither.

But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.

And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.

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

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 things from the north are devilish.

I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again.