Everything means something.

“Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothin…”

“And Pantalaimon didn't ask why, because he knew; and he didn't ask whether Lyra…”

“It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the li…”

“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we…”