"It was coming true, and he had to be worthy of it."

I never knew there were so many ways to talk to Dust, actually talk to it. I mean, the alethiometer, the Cave, the Chinese sticks... If I could just go back there tomorrow and play a bit more with the engine...

"Come on, I'll make a new bandage, I'll put some coffee on to cook, I'll make some omelette, whatever you want, and we'll sleep....We'll be safe now we've got the alethiometer back, you'll see."

"Where's my free will, if you please? And this child seems to me to have more free will than anyone I ever met. Are you telling me that she's just some kind of clockwork toy wound up and set going on a course she can't change?" "We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not," said the witch, "or die of despair."

But it takes bravery to look inward and confront your true self. That is how we sail past the Sirens. / Consider the path to making the Knife whole. […] You must go deep inside yourself. Find what matters.

How are you with heights? They don't scare me. Never have.

"Mrs. Coulter in the cave, watching Will, speculating; Will watching her, speculating. Their words like chess pieces, placed with great care, each carrying an invisible nimbus of implication and possibility and threat. Each of them afterwards felt as if they had barely escaped with their life."