Philip Pullman Quotes

The golden monkey darted from her side in a flash, and tugged Pantalaimon out from the mesh cage as Lyra fell out herself.

The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking...

The inn was an old stone-built rambling comfortable sort of place. There was a terrace above the river, where peacocks (one called Norman and the other called Barry) stalked among the drinkers, helpin...

The kingdom of heaven promised us certain things: it promised us happiness and a sense of purpose and a sense of having a place in the universe, of having a role and a destiny that were noble and sple...

Then it started to rain, so she went inside and made some coffee and did what she had never done in her life: tried the newspaper crossword. What a stupid exercise, said her dæmon after five minutes....

There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are others who cling to the rules because they fear tha...

There's some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a mistake, someone would have to pay; made no difference. There's others who longed t...

This book contains a story and several other things. The other things might be connected with the story, or they might not; they might be connected to stories that haven't appeared yet. It's not easy...

To stop you getting impatient, that’s why. You don’t really want to stand around at the cocktail party being all sweet and pretty. She’s just making a pet out of you. Lyra turned her back and closed h...

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, said the witch, or die of despair. There is a curious prophecy about this child: she is destined to bring about the end of destin...

We’ll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we’ll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we’ll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon...

What a stupid exercise, said her dæmon after five minutes. Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.

What is that other universe? she said. One of uncountable billions of parallel worlds. The witches have known about them for centuries, but the first theologians to prove their existence mathematicall...

When she saw how they worked, not on their own but two by two, working their trunks together to tie a knot, she realized why they'd been so astonished by her hands, because of course she could tie kno...

Where did this love come from? I don't know; it came to me like a thief in the night, and now I love her so much my heart is bursting with it.

Which made her barefaced lies all the more effective, Lord Asriel thought with disgust; she lied in the very marrow of her bones.

Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all Will's choices existed at once....

Yes, Dr. Malone went on, they know we’re here. They answer back. And here goes the crazy part: you can’t see them unless you expect to. Unless you put your mind in a certain state. You have to be conf...

You forget I am a woman, Your Eminence, and thus not so subtle as a prince of the Church.

You know the theorem of Pythagoras? The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. That’s exactly it. And is that true for every example you’ve tried? Yes.