Everything means something.

But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.

— Philip Pullman

“Whenever you turn your head, your deaths dodge behind you. Wherever you look, they hide. They hide in a teacup. Or in a dewdrop.…

— Philip Pullman

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

— Philip Pullman

“Every atom of me and every atom of you.”

— Philip Pullman

“Well, where is God," said Mrs Coulter, "if he's alive? And why doesn't he speak anymore? At the beginning of the world, God walked…

— Philip Pullman

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

— Philip Pullman

“He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He…

— Philip Pullman

Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of…

— Philip Pullman

She shared his pleasure, but for her it wasn't simple pleasure, for there was pain and fear in it too. Suppose he loved being…

— His Dark Materials Book 1 Page 166

Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

— John Milton

“On THE AMBER SPYGLASS: "If this plotline was a motorist, it would have been arrested for driving while intoxicated, if it had not perished…

— John C. Wright

“Imagine the same scene in HAMLET if Pullman had written it. Hamlet, using a mystic pearl, places the poison in the cup to kill…

— John C. Wright

Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these…

— John Milton

“Everything about her in that moment was soft, and that was one of his favorite memories later on--her tense grace made tender by the…

— philip pullman

What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no more precision…

— Charles Churchill