Philip Pullman Quotes

The Dust pouring down from the stars had found a living home again, and these children-no-longer-children, saturated with love, were the cause of it all.

Voltò le spalle. Dietro di loro c'erano dolore, morte e terrore; davanti dubbio, pericolo e misteri insondabili. Ma non erano soli.Così Lyra e il suo daimon voltarono le spalle al mondo in cui erano n...

Lyra has never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.

I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all

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.

Algunas historias son así. Cuando se les ha dado cuerda, nada las detiene; avanzan hasta alcanzar el final previsto. Aunque los personajes deseen con todas sus fuerzas modificar su destino, son incapa...

Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all

Capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.’ You

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

She was learning that if she pretended to be weak and frightened, and dabbed at her eyes with a lacy handkerchief, she could turn aside all manner of pressing questions.

There was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism. We see a similar reaction in painting and in music. It's a...

Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.

Why, yes, the mo­ment you’re born, your death comes in­to the world with you, and it’s your death that takes you out.

With ambitious aimagainst the throne and monarchy of Godrais’d impious war in Heav’n and battel proud … • JOHN MILTON •

Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: pl...

Whatever happened behind now was simply that: behind. Lyra had left it. She felt she was leaving the world altogether, so remote and intent she was, so high they were climbing, so strange and uncanny...

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

Its purpose was to defend democracy in this country, first of all. Then to defend the principles of freedom of thought and expression.

This is a different kind of knowing.… It’s like understanding, I suppose.…

Gyropters will arrive shortly after the zeppelins. In accordance with your orders, the Lady