I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that's what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.