Philip Pullman Quotes

His massive, plain, blunt presence was enough to calm them.

How can knowing something be sinful?

How do you do that? By not being human, he said. That's why you could never trick a bear. We see tricks and deceit as plain as arms and legs. We can see in a way humans have forgotten. But you know ab...

I felt as if something all passionately believed in depended on carrying on with something I didn't.

I felt exhausted, and worried, and friendless and hopeless and everything-else-less.

I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it.

I guess you are, said Lee. You have a strange way about you, Dr Grumman. You ever spend any time among the witches? Yes, said Grumman. And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhe...

I have suffered enough. Oh, there is more suffering to come. We have a thousand years of experience in this Church of ours. We can draw out your suffering endlessly. Tell us about the child, Mrs. Coul...

I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy...

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is...

I was condemned to be burnt myself recently, or my books were. An article in the _Catholic Herald_ said that my _His Dark Materials_ was far more worthy of the bonfire than Harry [Potter]; it was a mi...

I will love you forever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again . . .

I wish... she said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it. A final deep shaky breath, and she was ready to go on.

If I told you half of what he's done to keep us alive and safe, well, you wouldn't imagine it could be true.

If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not it is right to fight. Nor do we have a...

If you speak to people, you just attract their attention, he said, with a shaking voice. You should just keep quiet and still and they overlook you. I’ve been doing it all my life. I know how to do it...

If you wanted to divert a mighty river into a different course, and all you had was a single pebble, you could do it, as long as you put the pebble in the right place to send the first trickle of wate...

It’s important to put it like that: not I am a writer, but rather I write stories. If you put the emphasis on yourself rather than your work, you’re in danger of thinking that you’re the most importan...

It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither.

I’m just trying to wake up - I’m so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn’t care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake…