564 Quotes by philip pullman

And she sobbed so passionately he thought that hearts really did break, and hers was breaking now, for she fell to the ground wailing and shuddering, and Pantalaimon beside her became a wolf and howled with bitter grief.

Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.

Keep away from the literal-minded folk, and ignore the scoffers.

You’re in a world full of color and you want to see it in black and white.

It’s about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad.

If I told you half of what he’s done to keep us alive and safe, well, you wouldn’t imagine it could be true.

He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn’t live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily – as we shall soon see with Fritz’s own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.

That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.