...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford and Will’s woul….

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken..

Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in ….

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology - it's a science that's….

I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes..

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison..

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd nev….

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenl….