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Chapter 1 (The Enchanted Sleeper)
"...While the beasts of prey,
Come from caverns deep,
View'd the maid asleep..."
(William Blake)

From Plate 6 of his Songs of Experience, a poem entitled "The Little Girl Lost" about a sleeping girl named Lyca.

Chapter 2 (Balthamos and Baruch)
"Then a spirt passed before my face;
The hair of my flesh stood up"
(The Book of Job, 4:14)

Chapter 3 (Scavengers)
"The knight's bones are dust,
And his good sword rust;
His soul is with the saints, I trust"
(S.T. Coleridge)

From The Knight's Tomb.

Chapter 4 (Ama and the Bats)
"She lay as if at play
Her life had leaped away --
Intending to return --
But not so soon--"
(Emily Dickinson)

Chapter 5 (The Adamant Tower)
"...with ambitious aim
Against the throne and monarchy of God,
Rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battle proud"
(John Milton)

From Paradise Lost, book 1.

Chapter 6 (Pre-emptive Absolution)
"reliques, beads,
Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls,
The sport of winds..."
(John Milton)

From Paradise Lost, book 3.

Chapter 7 (Mary, Alone)
"Last
Rose as in dance the stately trees, and spread
Thir branches hung with copius fruit"
(John Milton)

Paradise Lost, book 7.

Chapter 8 (Vodka)
"I have been a stranger in a strange land"
(Exodus, 2:22)

Chapter 9 (Up-river)
"A Shade upon the mind there passes
As when on Noon
A Cloud the mighty Sun encloses"
(Emily Dickinson)

Quotes From the UK version of The Amber Spyglass

Note-These quotes are found in the beginning of the chapters in the UK version of The Amber Spyglass. Anything written in green is information I added about the individual quotes. Soon I'll add links to more information about each quote as well as links to the complete texts where possible.