Philip Pullman Quotes

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• I’m just trying to wake up - I’m so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first.…
• Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and…
• But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have…
• 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,…
• So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.
• Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years…
• It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither.
• But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.
• Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies…
• If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were…
• Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood…
• It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things,…
• And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.
• From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.
• I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in…
• A murderer was a worthy companion.
• Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
• The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she…
• Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.
• Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.

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