Favourite line.

[Kyrillion]

I'm sure this en't bin done afore. Anyway, PP (Pip? Peeps? Pullsy?) is good at the old one-liners in a generally non-homourous way. Just to get it out the way, I love the opening line,

'Lyra and her daemon moved quietly through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen'

especially in relation to,

'So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in and looked towards the sun and walked into the sky.'

My favourite line of dialogue is still Lyra's, 'Never! Never! Never!' in chapter 16 of NL...

Suggestions?

[zemarl]

'all the other things she'd seen, and even the hideous cruelty of the intercision, she could cope with; she was strong enough; but the thought of that sweet face and gentle voice, the image of that golden playful monkey, was enough to melt her stomach and make her pale and nauseated.'

chapter 16, northern lights

this is a fantastic sentence. there's some from TAS that i really love, and more from NL and TSK, but i only have NL at the moment and time online for me is running short. more later to be added, i assure you.

[Enitharmon]

There was a dream that had occupied her for a long time, and now it had returned, and little whimpers of pity and sorrow and rage and Lyratic resolution shook her breast and her throat, making Pantalaimon grind his polecat teeth in sympathy.

[Max]

I'm going to have to use two consecutive sentences:


She understood why these beings would wait for thousands of years and travel vast distances in order to be close to something important, and how they would feel differently for the rest of time, having been briefly in its presence. That was how these creatures looked now, these beautiful pilgrims of rarefied light, standing around the girl with the dirty face and the tartan skirt and the boy with the wounded hand who was frowning in his sleep.

[Ixia]

She became visible at once, and stepped forward smiling happily, because Yambe-Akka was merry and light-hearted and her visits were gifts of joy. The witch saw her and turned up her tear-stained face, and Serafina bent to kiss it, and slid her knife gently into the witch's heart.

[Naomi Silvertongue]

I have to use at least two sentences. Well maybe not....

"All I could hope was that my crimes were so monstrous that the love was no bigger than a mustard seed in the shadow of them, and I wished I'd commited even greater ones to hid it more deeply still...But the mustard seed had taken root and was growing, and the little green shoot was splitting my heart wide open, and I was afraid he'd see...."

Or anything were Lyra claims along the lines "We ain't never gonna...."

[Townie]

Oh the wicked liar. Oh the shameless untruths she was telling...."

[Botanic 2004]

don't start acting like a grown up or the spectres will get you; if memory serves then this has got to be a good line!

[Naomi Silvertongue]

That just teaches you to act your age or if the shoe fits then wear it. Though those to contradict each other. I suppose one would use them in moderation. When the moment presents its self. "One's true self, is never known til tested."

[voodoo_doll]

The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra's mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seaze those beating wings, and bear them all down togeth into the abyss.

And

"And then what? said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?"
"The republic of heaven," said Lyra

[Botanic 2004]

"And then what? said her dæmon sleepily. "Build what?"
"The republic of heaven," said Lyra

she doesn't need to bother now. because Merlyn did it for her!

[Naomi Silvertongue]

Yes good old Merlyn.

[Kyrillion]

...And her daemon was a golden monkey

[lostinthought451]

"Lyra and her daemon crept through the darkening hall.."

-one of the best openings ever.

[jessia]

my favourite bit's more of a scene, than a line; does it still count?

[Kyrillion]

Nope.

[Jamie]

"And she looked back again at the foul and dismal shore, so bleak and blasted with disease and poison, and thought of her dear Pan waiting there alone, her heart's companion watching her disappear into the mist, and she fell into a storm of weeping. " pg.296 -TAS

"All his life he'd been alone, and now he must be alone again, and this infinitely precious blessing that had come to him must be taken away almost at once. He felt the wave build higher and steeper to darken the sky, he felt the crest tremble and begin to spill, he felt the great mass crashing down with the whole weight of the ocean behind it against the iron-bound coast of what had to be" pg.522 -TAS

it's all very sad isn't it...

[Will]

"Lyra and her dæmon crept through the darkening hall.."

-one of the best openings ever.

"moved" !

[lostinthought451]

"Lyra and her dæmon crept through the darkening hall.."

-one of the best openings ever.

"moved" !

pssh, fine.

[Kyrillion]

and she backed against the wall to defend him to their death