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  1. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    Find the girl and the boy. Waste no more time.You must play the serpent.
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  2. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful?
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  3. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    whatever humanness he had left felt the strangest of pleasures: that of offering eager obedience to a stronger power that was wholly right.
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  4. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    nor that she saw them as human-formed only because her eyes expected to. If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of intelligence and feeling.
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  5. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    Anything that was associated with human workmanship and human thought was surrounded by Shadows.…
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  6. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    The two dark figures of the bene elim has not moved. But they spoke:"You must come with us now. Lord Asriel needs you at once. The enemy's power is growing every minute. The shaman has told you what your task is. Follow us and help us win. Come with us. Come this way. Come now."And Will looked from them to Lyra's rucksack and back again, and he didn't hear a word they said.
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  7. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    The Subtle Knife is the second part of the trilogy that began with The Golden Compass. That first book was set in a world like ours, but different. This book begins in our own world.
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  8. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.
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  9. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to.
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  10. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    The temperature had disturbed the insects, and a cloud of midges made every outline hazy.
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  11. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know.
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  12. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.
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