Цитаты из произведения The Secret Commonwealth — стр. 4

Это ребячество, Пан, и незрелость. Приписывать злые или магические качества аргументу, который ты не в силах опровергнуть!.. Ты ведь всегда считал, что видишь вещи такими, какие они есть, а теперь сам заблудился в тумане суеверий и магии. И боишься того, чего просто не можешь понять!

Тогда у Пана возникло чувство, что они с Лирой особенные, что за ними приглядывает какая-то высшая сила, – и вот теперь это чувство вернулось вновь.

Ahead of her the dead bones of the town lay almost white in the moonlight. Lives had been spent here — people had loved one another and eaten and drunk and laughed and betrayed and been afraid of death — and not a single fragment of that remained. White stones, black shadows.

The moon was climbing the sky, and the vast sweep of the Milky Way stretched above, every one of those minute specks a sun in its own system, lighting and warming planets, maybe, and life, maybe, and some kind of wondering being, maybe, looking out at the little star that was her sun, and at this world, and at Lyra.

She felt not only as if she were dead now, but that she'd always been dead, and had only dreamed of being alive, and that there was no life in the dream either: it was only the meaningless and indifferent jostling of particles in her brain, nothing more.

Are you sorry? If it is your fault, you should be sorry. If it is not, there is no blame to be sorry for. A mistake is your fault. An incapacity is not.

I hated myself then a I'll always hate myself for as long as I live. I hate every part of me that isn't you, and I'll have to live with that. Sometimes I thinks if I could kill myself without killing you, I might do it, I'm so unhappy. I don't deserve to be happy, I know that.

...worse than the pain, was the abandonment. That you should just leave me there alone. D'you realize how I gazed and stared and called out to you and tried so hard to keep you in sight as you moved off into the dark? The last thing I could see was your hair, the very last thing I could see till the dark swallowed it up.…

Lyra tried to recall every image from the dream, but it was vanishing by the second. All that was left was that intense, intoxicating, saturating love.