[“And then what?” said her daemon sleepily. “Build what?”] “The Republic of Heaven,” said Lyra.

    — Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (thanks, megannotninja)

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

    — Northern Lights (also known as The Golden Compass, from His Dark Materials trilogy) by Philip Pullman