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And this time, with a wrenching crack, the knife shattered and the blade fell in pieces to the ground, to glitter on the stones that were still wet with the rain of another universe.
Philip Pullman • His Dark Materials: The Complete Collection: now a major BBC TV series

soporific burble.
Clive Barker • Imajica
Not for nothing is his personal dæmon the raven, that picker-up of bits and pieces here and there.
Philip Pullman • Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling
When Adam’s flesh and Adam’s bone Sits at Cair Paravel in throne, The evil time will be over and done.
C.S. Lewis • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe


No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island,