564 Quotes by philip pullman

And then Serafina understood something for which witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait for thousands of years and travel vast distances in order to be close to something important, and how they would feel differently for the rest of time, having been briefly in its presence.

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, it's embarrassing.

I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.

But heaven knows there are enough policemen about. They're like a plague of cockroaches. You can't move without stepping on them.

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

Y durante buena parte del tiempo, la sabiduría ha tenido que trabajar en secreto, susurrando sus palabras, moviéndose como un espía a través de los lugares humildes del mundo mientras las cortes y los palacios están ocupados por sus enemigos.

Everything means something.

The question was, she thought, was the universe alive or dead?

Malcolm stared back calmly, though he felt anything but calm: if that monkey had a name, it might be Malice, he thought.