The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
‘My heart jumped up into my lungs. I never waited to look further, but uncocked my gun and went sneaking back to my camp as quiet and as fast as I could.’
‘My heart jumped up into my lungs. I never waited to look further, but uncocked my gun and went sneaking back to my camp as quiet and as fast as I could.’
‘And it wasn’t simply an ordinary enormous chocolate factory, either. It was the largest and most famous in the whole world! It was WONKA’S FACTORY, owned by a man called Mr. Willy Wonka, the greatest inventor and maker of chocolates that there has ever been.’
“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
“There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”
“I think the only person in the world who realizes how ordinary I am is me.”
“Then a few years later, when I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After”
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“It’s an alethiometer. It’s one of only six that were ever made. Lyra, I urge you again: keep it private.”
“Yet when I say that I wanted there to be something, I mean nothing bad, but something. A rare occurrence. A sighting. A bingo win, through Sunday was not a bingo day… That’s what I wanted, though, something out of the ordinary. Only that.”
“That was when I realized that life was a multiple-choice test with two answers: Male or Female. And I was None of the Above.”
“You see, they only sing across the water. Here the sky fell in long ago.”
“When hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible.”
“Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.”
“The difference is that was then, this is now.”
‘… And I had to face that fact, too: I was not a normal kid. I had “a gift.” That’s what Mrs. Hackney had called it. Some gift.’
‘They coursed Europe on the White Horses of the Plague. They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale’