“All the time I was away,” Lyra said, “I never thought about that. All I thought about was just the time I was in, just the present. There were plenty of times when I thought I didn’t get a future at all. And now... Well, suddenly finding I’ve got a whole life to live, but no... but no idea what to do with it, well, it’s like having the alethiometer but no idea how to read it.”
