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mel’s his dark materials countdown | it’s today!!!: a piece of season 2 hype → mlm/wlw solidarity

It lay heavily in her hands, the crystal face gleaming, the golden body exquisitely machined. It was very like a clock, or a compass, for there were hands pointing to places around the dial, but instead of the hours or the points of the compass there were several little pictures, each of them painted with extraordinary precision, as if on ivory with the finest and slenderest sable brush. She turned the dial around to look at them all. There was an anchor; an hourglass surmounted by a skull; a chameleon, a bull, a beehive … Thirty-six altogether, and she couldn’t even guess what they meant.

Oh, the bitter anguish! She had thought she was saving Roger, and all the time she’d been diligently working to betray him…

mel’s his dark materials countdown | 3 days to go: a heartbreaking moment → billy costa’s funeral

What of our hands? We plead, we promise, call, dismiss, threaten, pray, entreat, deny, refuse, question, admire, count, confess, repent, fear, show shame, doubt, instruct, command, incite, encourage, swear oaths, bear witness, accuse, condemn, absolve, insult, despise, defy, exalt, celebrate, rejoice, complain, grieve, mope, despair, express astonishment, exclaim, keep silent - and what do we not do? - with a variety and multiplicity that rivals language - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond

It was a mighty voice, a woman’s voice, but a woman with lungs of brass and leather. Lyra looked around for her at once, because this was Ma Costa, who had clouted Lyra dizzy on two occasions but given her hot gingerbread on three, and whose family was noted for the grandeur and sumptuousness of their boat. They were princes among gyptians, and Lyra admired Ma Costa greatly, but she intended to be wary

As a costume designer, you don’t often get to make clothes that are meant to draw attention, but every outfit of Mrs Coulter’s should have that ability. She has a golden monkey for a daemon, for goodness’ sake; she’s never going to walk into a room unnoticed. ~ Caroline McCall

mel’s his dark materials countdown | 7 days to go: a moment that made me laugh → mrs coulter being mother of the year