Philip Pullman

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

The Golden Compass

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. 

The Golden Compass quotes

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