564 Quotes by philip pullman

You forget I am a woman, Your Eminence, and thus not so subtle as a prince of the Church.

It was a jaw cracking, lung-bursting yawn that lasted almost a minute.

There he dwelt, a prisoner acting like a king.

Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it. That’s original sin. And I’m going to destroy it. Death is going to die.

He had to stay close to the ship, of course, for he could never go far from her; but she sensed his desire to speed as far and as fast as he could, for pure exhilaration. She shared his pleasure, but for her it wasn’t simple pleasure, for there was pain and fear in it too. Suppose he loved being a dolphin more than he loved being with her on land? What would she do then? Her.

Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I’m telling a story! Oh, that can’t be the case, because I’m a clever person. I’m a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? I know! I’ll write Ulysses.”

But then she remembered what the gyptians had said: Include things, don’t leave them out. Look at things in their context. Include everything.

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

Perhaps some particles move backward in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don’t understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are.