“Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.”
“The powers of this world are very strong. Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current. Go well, Lyra; bless you, child, bless you. Keep your own counsel.”
“Love. The wide sea that one word conjures up, all the currents and tides and storms and oily swells of it.”
“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
“Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.”