Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 2 : Balthamos and Baruch
Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 2 : Balthamos and Baruch
Context: Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed. At the moment all Will’s choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
“There's always a way out. All you have to do is take it.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”
Variant: If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.”
Source: The Devotion of Suspect X
“You take the way from man, not to man. All persons that ever existed are its forgotten ministers.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: You take the way from man, not to man. All persons that ever existed are its forgotten ministers. Fear and hope are alike beneath it. There is somewhat low even in hope. In the hour of vision, there is nothing that can be called gratitude, nor properly joy. The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existence of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.
Ceremony (1977)
2015, Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (2015)
