💬 Quotes

"I think it’s possible to fall in love with a city, just like a person."

"Some birds are meant to be caged, and some men are meant to be kings. But a king who cannot keep his own house in order is no king at all."

"Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities."

"Words are wind. They blow away as easily as they are spoken, but actions remain carved in stone."

"My father used to say that any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king at all."

"The gods have no mercy, that’s why they are gods. It is the men who dream of mercy who suffer the most."

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

"I will make a world where there is no Dust. I will make a world where there is no temptation, no sin, and no death."

"You must be brave, Lyra. You must be like a little knife yourself, sharp and bright and cutting through everything."

"Everything is connected. You cannot pull on a thread without disturbing the rest of the web."

"To be a person is to be a creature who has to make choices, and every choice has a price."

"When you choose one path, you must give up all the others. That is the nature of the world."

"The knife doesn't just cut matter; it cuts through the truth itself. It is a tool for changing the shape of what we are allowed to know."

"I’m not afraid of the truth anymore. I’m afraid of what the truth will do to the people I love."

"It’s impossible to move forward if you’re always looking back, but it’s even more impossible to move forward if you don’t know where you started."

"You can’t control what happens to you, but you can control how you let it affect you."

"Holding onto the past is like trying to hold onto the wind. It’s impossible, and eventually, you just have to let it go."

"Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well."

"Hope can be a powerful weapon, even when it is weaponized against oneself."

"If you want to know who someone is, look at how they treat their enemies."