Philip Pullman

Lyra Belacqua tries to prevent kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments, decides to help Will Parry search for his father, and finds that she and Will are caught in a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by her uncle, Lord Asriel.

The Golden Compass/The Subtle Knife/The Amber Spyglass

His Dark Materials

Ann-Sophie

Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That's original sin.

Erika Stonehouse

"Yes; I can't prevent it," said the Master, and Lyra didn't notice at the time what an odd thing that was to say. 

Chiara Carbone

Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful?

…it was as if the mulefa and the seedpod really were one creature, which by a miracle could disassemble itself and put itself together again. 

His Dark Materials quotes

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