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...
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 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 I told you half of what he's done to keep us alive and safe, well, you wouldn't imagine it could be true.
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.
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 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 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 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 found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it.
I felt exhausted, and worried, and friendless and hopeless and everything-else-less.
His massive, plain, blunt presence was enough to calm them.
Finally, and almost simultaneously, the children discovered what it was like to be drunk. Do they like doing this? gasped Roger, after vomiting copiously. Yes, said Lyra, in the same condition. And so...
Doesn't it scare you having your death close by all the time? said Lyra. Why ever would it? If he's there, you can keep an eye on him. I'd be a lot more nervous not knowing where he was.
Death is going to die.
But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate a...
But there had always been ghosts in the mountains, everyone knew that.
But 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...
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would... and then someone passed me a bit of some sweet stuff, and su...
Beacause if they think the Dust is bad, it must be good.