Quotes by Philip Pullman

“I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his creation.”

“When you stopped believing in God," he went on, "did you stop believing in good and evil?""No. But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came...”

“Everything about this is embarrassing" she said. "D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist w...”

“Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect...”

“Finally, Id say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, dont be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky pen, use it. If you speak with more force and wit when wearing one red sock and one ...”

“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 so...”

“It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. Everyone tested it when they were...”

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

“All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers dont get plumbers block, and doctors dont get doctors block; why should writers be the only pro...”

“Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "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....”

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

“The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.”

“Im with the fool in the psalm. You thought we could get on without you; no you didnt care whether we got on without you or not. You just got up and left. So thats what were doing, were getting on.”

“A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.”

“Ruta Skadi was four hundred and sixteen years old, with all the pride and knowledge of an adult witch queen. She was wiser by far than any short-lived human, but she had not the slightest idea of h...”

“She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!""You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!”

“All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable.”

“The children will come to no harm.""Except for the older ones. Like that poor kid down there.""Mr. Scoresby, that is the way this world works. And if you want to put an end to cruelty and injustice...”

“Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.”

“She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken w...”