21 Feelings Only His Dark Materials Fans Know

Note there are a lot more than this list because that series is king of feel trips.

1. Never being alone because you know your Dæmon.

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Let's not lie, we all do.

2. Looking at other people and wondering what their Dæmon is.

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3. Knowing the joy of ruling the streets of Oxford.

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"The Scholars, for their part, would have been unable to see the rich seething stew of alliances and emnities and feuds and treaties which was a child's life in Oxford."

4. Excitement any time someone mentions 'The North'.

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Magic.

5. Warmth like a Gyptian embrace.

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"Outside the parley room Ma Costa was waiting and, as if nothing had happened since Lyra was born, the boat-mother gathered her into her great arms and kissed her before bearing her off to bed."

6. Being without a Dæmon.

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"A human being with no dæmon was like someone without a face, or with their ribs laid open and their heart torn out: something unnatural and uncanny that belong to the world of night-ghasts, not the waking world of sense."

7. Riding a Panserbjørn.

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"The sense of immense power she felt was overwhelming. As if she weighed nothing at all, he turned and loped away in a long swingin run up towards the ridge and into the low trees. It took some time before she was used to the movement, and then she felt a wild exhilaration. She was riding a bear!"

8. Someone touching your Dæmon.

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This one can be good or bad depending on the scenario.

"And suddenly all the strength went out of her. It was as if an alien hand reached right inside where no hand had a right to be, and wrenched at something deep and precious. She felt faint, dizzy, sick, disgusted, limp with shock. One of the men was holding Pantalaimon."

"Will had no idea of the taboo in Lyra's world preventing one person from touching another's dæmon, and if he hadn't touched Pantalaimon before it was politeness that had held him back and not knowledge. Lyra, in fact, was breathtaken."

9. Trying to understand the complex nature of Marisa Coulter.

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So many layers to this woman.

10. Getting into the state of mind needed to read the Alethiometer or use the Subtle Knife.

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"Lyra was bursting to interrupt, because she knew this process. So did Dr Malone, and so did the poet Keats, whoever he was, and all of them knew you couldn't get it by straining towards it."

11. Trepidation of stepping into another world.

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"So Lyra and her dæmon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked towards the sun and walked into the sky"

12. Trying and failing to be as proud as a Gallivespian.

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"The Gallivespians had few of the qualities of good spies except, of course, their smallness: they were so proud and touchy that they would never have remained inconspicuous if they had been of Lord Asriel's size."

13. Comfort in knowing your Death.

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"In the middle of your pain and travail, your death comes to you kindly and says easy now, easy, child, you come along o' me, and you go with them"

14. Pain of being parted from your Dæmon.

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"Part of it was physical. It felt as if an iron hand had gripped his heart and was pulling it out between his ribs, so that he pressed his hands to the place and vainly tried to hold it in. But it was mental, too: something secret and private was being dragged into the open where it had no wish to be... There was nothing worse to feel"

15. Being devoured by a Spectre.

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Before Dementors were even thought of, Spectres were devouring souls.

16. Pity for Father Gomez and his belief in Pre-emptive Absolution.

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"It was sometimes necessary to kill people, for example: and it was so much easier for the assassin if he could do so in a state of grace."

17. Ferocity of love throughout the series.

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From the pain of Balthamos in losing Baruch, to the anger of a scorned witch. Love is a strong theme in HDM.

18. Anticipation of becoming Dust when we die.

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"I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again... And when we do find each other again we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of you and every atom of me... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams..."

19. The taste of marzipan and going to China.

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And really just knowing what this means.

20. Agony at the thought of the Botanic Garden in Oxford.

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Just don't.

21. Your life changing because of these books.

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