“Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.”

“Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.”

“Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.”

“When Kami jumped over a style, he looked like he's never seen one before. "I have never seen one before," Jared said.”

“Lyra had never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.”

“..Well, I did go. To Auschwitz. And the warning was correct. Not because I was not permitted to describe what I had seen, but because I could not describe what I had seen. The piles of glasses. The piles of shoes. The piles of bones. The piles of human hair. I thought that I had never seen the kind of thinking that did this, that I had never seen this kind of reality. Not in movies, not in theater. Yet it was real.”