Northern Lights
Northern Lights / The Golden Compass is the first book in the His Dark Materials book series by Philip Pullman. One of my projects was to illustrate my chosen quotations from the first novel in the series.
"The next picture was also taken at night, but this time without moonlight. It showed a small group of tents in the foreground, dimly outlined against the low horizon, and beside them an untidy heap of wooden boxes and a sledge. But the main interest of the picture lay in the sky. Streams and veils of light hung like curtains, looped and festooned on invisible hooks hundreds of miles high or blowing outsideways in the stream of some unimaginable wind." Northern Lights by Philip Pullman, Page 23.
"He crossed to the desk and took from a drawer a small package wrapped in black velvet. When he unfolded the cloth, Lyra saw something like a large watch or a small clock: a thick disc of brass and crystal. It might have been a compass or something of the sort." Northern Lights by Philip Pullman, Page 74.
"What had happened to the dead men's daemons? They were fading, that was the answer; fading and drifting away like atoms of smoke, for all that they had tried to cling to their men." Northern Lights by Philip Pullman, Page 105.
"Farder Coram leaned forward and gently pulled back the counterpane, and there protruding from his shoulder was the feathered end of an arrow in a mass of clotted blood. The shaft and head were so deep in the poor man's chest that only six inches or so remained above the skin." Northern Lights by Philip Pullman, Page148.
"The faces of a dozen or more bears, all gazing at her, none in armour but each with some kind of decoration: a golden necklace, a head-dress of purple feathers, a crimson sash." Northern Lights by Philip Pullman, Page 333 - 334.
"Finally the warriors were still and silent, watching each other face to face across the width of the combat-ground." Northern Lights by Philip Pullman, Page 348.
