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81 " …in a little adventure that had culminated in her thinking that everything meant something, if only she could read it. The universe had seemed alive then. There were messages to be read everywhere you looked. "
― Philip Pullman , The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)
82 " But just now she lacked inventiveness, or energy, or chutzpah. She was tired and lonely and frightened. "
83 " Then she felt dizzy. This was all impossible, and it was all happening. "
84 " Since coming home to Oxford after that strange adventure, they had told no one about it, and exercised the most scrupulous care to keep it a secret; but sometimes, and more often recently, they simply had to get away from each other. "
85 " The meaning of something is its connection to something else "
86 " All she could do was hope, and she kept trying to do that in spite of the fear and loneliness. "
87 " Phantoms. Ghasts of this kind or that. Emissaries of the Evil One.""Do you believe that?""Of course. It would be an intellectual failure to do anything else. "
88 " She felt so alone. She felt as if her life had gone into a kind of hibernation, as if part of her were asleep and maybe dreaming the rest. She let herself be passive; she accepted whatever happened. "
89 " They gave her another image: she was enticing monsters out of the darkness of herself. "
90 " …and it would all go back to the way it used to be. At the same time, he knew it wouldn’t, but he had to hold on to something in the dark nights, and imagination was all he had. "
91 " Being invisible was hard work, unrewarding, soul-crushing work. "
92 " Thoughts that didn’t bear thinking kept crowding in and shouldering aside her pretended passivity. "