“That is how it seems…. But we can’t read the darkness, Mr. Scoresby. It is more than possible that I might be wrong.”

—  Philip Pullman , His Dark Materials trilogy

Source: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 18 : Fog and Ice

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