The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials
Our relation to ideas is an inextricable symbiosis, like that between plant and pollinator, a mutualism in which neither can survive without the other. At the dawn of civilization, a covenant was made between humans and these alien entities that live in our minds—honor and respect each other and all will flourish beyond their wildest dreams.
Roger's Bacon • Ideas are Alive and You are Dead
she was no doubt worried she would go to hell if she didn’t show her respect for the dead.
Ann Napolitano • Hello Beautiful: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
then slowly in the months that followed came his growing realization that the danger was in her mind, and he had to protect her all the more.
Philip Pullman • His Dark Materials: The Complete Collection: now a major BBC TV series
But if you give in to that passion, friends, you’re a-doing what I always warned you agin: you’re a-placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do.