Philip Pullman Short Quotes

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Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

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Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

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On, said the alethiometer. Farther, higher.
So on they climbed.

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The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

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In Lyra's heart, revulsion struggled with compassion, and compassion won.

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Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

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Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?

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When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.

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If they live in the world, they should see and touch and hear and learn things.

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"And then what?" said her Dæmon sleepily "build what?"
"The Republic of Heaven."

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

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Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That's original sin.

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When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

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'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

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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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For a human being, nothing comes naturally, said Grumman. We have to learn everything we do.

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You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.

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She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.

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She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

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It's like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can't do is choose neither.

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Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

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You going to be a scientist when you grow up? That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

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We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, said the witch, or die of despair.

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

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And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

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Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.

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Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

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Seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.

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That is how it seems.... But we can't read the darkness, Mr. Scoresby. It is more than possible that I might be wrong.

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

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