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41 " Serafina said, 'Have you been married, Mr Scoresby? Have you any children?''No, ma'am, I have no child, though I would have liked to be a father. But I understand your question, and you're right: that little girl has had bad luck with her true parents, and maybe I can make it up to her. Someone has to do it, and I'm willing. "
― Philip Pullman , His Dark Materials
42 " You said I was a warrior. You told me that was my nature, and I shouldn't argue with it. Father, you were wrong. I fought because I had to. I can't choose my nature, but I can choose what I do. And I will choose, because now I'm free. "
43 " Love makes us suffer. But this task of ours is greater than revenge. Remember that. "
44 " Sounds like what we call physics, your experimental theology. You want scientists, not theologians. "