Philip Pullman Quotes

On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and pai...

You are an enemy of the Church, Lee Scoresby. By their fruits shall ye know them.

He came awake like someone struggling to swim to the surface of a lake of laudanum, where the strongest delights were the deepest and there was nothing above but cold and fear and duty.

Nor that she saw them as human-formed only because her eyes expected to. If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of...

War is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe.

With no more weight than a shadow.

Не ви ли е страх, когато знаете, че смъртта ви е някъде съвсем наблизо? - попита Лира.- Защо трябва да ни е страх? Щом е тук, поне може да я държим под око.

But there are fates that even the most powerful have to submit to. There is nothing I can do to help you change the way things are.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

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...

All things from the north are devilish.

And at the word alone, Will felt a great wave of rage and despair moving outwards from a place deep within him, as if his mind were an ocean that some profound convulsion had disturbed. All his life h...

And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their...

And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait for thousands of years and travel vast distances in...

And then Serafina understood something for which witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait for thousands of years and travel vast distances in orde...

Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries.

Did you seriously think for one moment, she said, sounding fierce now, that I would let this little baby, who has been given into our care, be taken away by three strangers on the strength of a single...

Du hast gesagt, ich sei ein Krieger [...] Du sagtest, das sei meine Natur und ich dürfe mich nicht dagegen wehren. Aber du hattest Unrecht, Vater. Ich habe nur gekämpft, weil ich musste. Über meine Na...

Eventually, child, you will come to the land of the dead with no effort, no risk, a safe, calm journey, in the company of your own death, your special, devoted friend, who's been beside you every mome...

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.