Tell them stories.

“when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.”

— Philip Pullman

“There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a-coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future.…

— Philip Pullman

And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.

— Philip Pullman

“I bet you could catch bullets,” she said, and threw the stick away. “How do you do that?” “By not being human,” he said.…

— 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

“I’m working on another Lyra book right now – it’s called The Book of Dust. “It’s going very well and it will be finished…

— Philip Pullman

“But it didn’t seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.”

— Philip Pullman

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

— Philip Pullman

“Must is not the same as can, Lyra'. 'But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse!”

— Philip Pullman

“She turned away. Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries. But they weren’t…

— Philip Pullman

“Lyra at eighteen sitting intent and absorbed in Duke Humfrey’s Library with the alethiometer and a pile of leather-bound books. Tucking the hair back…

— Philip Pullman

Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

— Philip Pullman

“He said, "Lyra, gal, it won't be long now. When you see that old bear, you tell him Lee went out fighting. And when…

— Philip Pullman

“The powers of this world are very strong. Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep…

— Philip Pullman

“Everything means something," Lyra said severely. "We just have to find out how to read it.”

— Philip Pullman