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Philip Pullman Quote: “There is time, and there is what is beyond time. There is darkness, and there is light. There is the world and the flesh, and there is God.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Does he think the job of a librarian is so simple, so empty of content, that anyone can step up and do it for a thank-you and a cup of tea? Does he think that all a librarian does is to tidy the shelves?”
Philip Pullman Quote: “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. Your way, you just – you make yourself visible.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Lyra had to adjust to her new sense of her own story, and that couldn’t be done in a day.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Do you think I need anything else?” “You could do with some sense,” came the reply. “Some faculty to enable you to recognize wisdom and incline you to respect and obey it.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Malcolm stared back calmly, though he felt anything but calm: if that monkey had a name, it might be Malice, he thought.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “There he dwelt, a prisoner acting like a king.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “The world is a cruel place sometimes, and warm-hearted people do most of the good in it. And much of the time, they’re mocked and scorned for their pains.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Being cheerful starts now, Will thought as hard as he could, but it was like trying to hold a fighting wolf still in his arms when it wanted to claw at his face and tear out his throat; nevertheless, he did it, and he thought no one could see the effort it cost him.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Then excuse me, Miss Silver, but they have separated their intelligences from their other faculties. And that is not an intelligent thing to do.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Lyra has never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “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 important thing. But you’re not. The story is what matters, and you’re only the servant. Your job is to get it out on time and in good order.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “But we shouldn’t believe things because it makes us happy to, she thought. We should believe things because they’re true, and if that makes us unhappy, that’s very unfortunate, but it’s not the reason of fault.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn’t live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Make a noise in there and I won’t help you. You’re on your own.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “It’s about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “There’s another difference between us, Mr. Scoresby. A witch would no sooner give up flying than give up breathing. To fly is to be perfectly ourselves.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “I think we need to tell each other everything we’ve found out. And it’ll take us a good long time, and we might as well keep our hands busy while we’re doing it, so.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “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 was the light that bathed them.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Each kiss was nearer to the last one of all.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn’t think of him – didn’t speak to him in her head, didn’t relive every moment they’d been together, didn’t long for his voice and his hands and his love. She had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most. She thought the tenderness it left in her heart was like a bruise that would never go away, but she would cherish it forever.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “So they had language, and they had fire, and they had society. And about then she found an adjustment being made in her mind, as the word creatures became the word people. These beings weren’t human, but they were people, she told herself; it’s not them, they’re us. They.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “The narrating voice that tells ‘Middlemarch’ is just as much a made-up character as Dorothea or Mr. Casaubon.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “He was liked when noticed, but not noticed much, and that did him no harm either.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Nothing is just anything.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “We need to imagine as well as measure.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “I stay here and drink spirits because the men here took my armor away, and without that, I can hunt seals but I can’t go to war; and I am an armored bear; war is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound and fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “D’you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story – and it’s my job to attend to what it wants to do.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “She has committed great sins, but they’ve been forgiven, and that’s why she loves so deeply.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Perhaps some particles move backward in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don’t understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Like a wave that has been building it’s strength over a thousand miles of ocean, and which makes little stir in the deep water, but which, when it reaches the shallows rears itself high up into the sky, terrifying the shore dwellers, before crashing down on land with irresistible power – so Iorek Byrnison rose up against Iofur, exploding upward from his firm footing on the dry rock and slashing with a ferocious left hand at the exposed jaw of Iofur Raknison.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “I’ve just read it so much, it memorized itself.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “I’m with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can’t characterize them any better than that.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Mrs. Coulter selected her lovers for their power and influence, but it did no harm if they were good-looking. Did she ever become fond of a lover? Not once. She could not keep her servants, either.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Lyra bent over the open vessel and found the concentrated fragrance of every rose that had ever bloomed: a sweetness and power so profound that it moved beyond sweetness altogether and out of the other side of its own complexity into a realm of clear and simple purity and beauty. It was the smell of sunlight itself.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “My only real claim to anyone’s attention lies in my writing.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Shame on you! Think what this child has done! You might not have more courage, but you should be ashamed to show less.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “You know, it isn’t really surprising that there are things about ourselves that still remain a mystery to us,” he said. “Maybe we should be comforted that the knowledge is there, even if it’s withheld for a while.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “Whenever you turn your head, your deaths dodge behind you. Wherever you look, they hide. They hide in a teacup. Or in a dewdrop. Or in a breath of wind.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “In fact, these possibility collapses happen at the level of elementary particles, but they happen in just the same way: one moment several things are possible, the next moment only one thing happens, and the rest don’t exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which they did happen.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “It might not be fair, but no one’s to blame.”
Philip Pullman Quote: “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 do I,” she added stubbornly. Lyra.”
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