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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5b1f7b0 | Keep behind me, Metatron--wait here--Asriel is suspicious--let me lull him first. When he's off guard, I'll call you. But come as a shadow, in this small form, so he doesn't see you--otherwise, he'll just let the child's daemon fly away." The Regent was a being whose profound intellect had had thousands of years to deepen and strengthen itself, and whose knowledge extended over a million universes. Nevertheless, at that moment he was blinde.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 2d5b7dd | To be sure, there's a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you're a doing what I always warned you agin: you're a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 5cb6983 | once or twice the two of them shared a glimpse of meaning that felt as if a shaft of sunlight had struck through clouds to light up a majestic line of great hills in the distance--something far beyond, and never suspected. | Philip Pullman | ||
| f3bc4d5 | and she saw a bed of lamb's lettuce, or rapunzel. | Philip Pullman | ||
| f774031 | If they turned their back on something frightening behind them and tried to get really interested in the stones and how they fitted together, or the leaves on the bush, like if only they could make themselves find that really important, they'd be safe. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 3271670 | vsichko ti e iasno, vsichko razbirash, no to e tolkova d'lboko, che ne mozhesh da se doberesh do d'noto. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 6363e9f | Mozhe bi poniakoga greshim, zashchoto greshniiat izbor e po-opasniiat, a nie se boim da ne izglezhdame strakhlivtsi i t'kmo zatova izbirame opasnostta. | Philip Pullman | ||
| b404c5a | Ne vi li e strakh, kogato znaete, che sm'rtta vi e niak'de s'vsem nablizo? - popita Lira. - Zashcho triabva da ni e strakh? Shchom e tuk, pone mozhe da ia d'rzhim pod oko. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 6474797 | when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 3b66226 | The present Mr. Parslow was teaching his son the craft; the two of them and their three workmen would scramble like industrious termites over the scaffolding they'd erected at the corner of the library, or over the roof of the chapel, and haul up bright new blocks of stone or rolls of shiny lead or balks of timber. The | Philip Pullman | ||
| b49ee31 | Nevertheless, he understood: this was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them. | Philip Pullman | ||
| e19f467 | Ma tu pensa ad Adamo ed Eva come una specie di numero immaginario, come la radice quadrata di meno uno; non potrai mai vedere nessuna prova concreta della sua esistenza, ma se la includi nelle tue equazioni potrai calcolare tutta una serie di cose che in sua assenza non si potrebbero neppure concepire. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 0ecf5b4 | Mira, carino, a nadie le pasaria nunca por la cabeza hacer una operacion a un nino sin someterlo antes a una prueba. !Y nadie sonaria siquiera en separar a un nino de su daimonion! La unica cosa que se le hace es un pequenisimo corte y a partir de aquel momento ya no hay otra cosa que felicidad. !Felicidad para siempre! Tu daimonion es para ti un amigo y un companero maravilloso mientras eres joven pero, cuando llegas a a pubertad, una edad.. | daimonion polvo soledad tristeza | Philip Pullman | |
| 2edceb2 | ferocious and meaningless screams. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 29d794d | The world is a cruel place sometimes, and warm-hearted people do most of the good in it. And much of the time, they're mocked and scorned for their pains. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 02fe203 | theology | Philip Pullman | ||
| 7746f37 | Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act." "To be myself, I have to put on an act," Ginny said bitterly. "What's that mean?" "It means I don't know who I am." | identity-crisis | Philip Pullman | |
| 233865e | I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me. | identity identity-crisis | Philip Pullman | |
| 883784a | You'll take some Tokay?" said Hallgrimsson, sitting down after looking through the window along the rain-swept street, and then pulling the curtains across against the draft. "That would be a rare pleasure," said Coram." | Philip Pullman | ||
| 1114d6e | To stop you getting impatient, that's why. You don't really want to stand around at the cocktail party being all sweet and pretty. She's just making a pet out of you." Lyra turned her back and closed her eyes. But what Pantalaimon said was true. She had been feeling confined and cramped by this polite life, however luxurious it was. She would have given anything for a day with Roger and her Oxford ragamuffin friends, with a battle in the cl.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 8e6f7f7 | Perhaps we don't mean the same thing by choice, Mr. Scoresby. Witches own nothing, so we're not interested in preserving value or making profits, and as for the choice between one thing and another, when you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again. We have different needs. You have to repair your balloon and keep it in good condition, and that takes time and trouble, I see that; but for us to fly, al.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 3581301 | We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not," said the witch, "or die of despair. There is a curious prophecy about this child: she is destined to bring about the end of destiny. But she must do so without knowing what she is doing, as if it were her nature and not her destiny to do it. If she's told what she must do, it will all fail; death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, fore.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 2556c06 | Suppose it never stops?" she whispered. "The gyptian man didn't say it'd do that. Just that there was going to be a flood." | motivation positive-thinking | Philip Pullman | |
| 26cd227 | When he rescued me, he was young and strong and full of pride and beauty. I loved him at once. I would have changed my nature, I would have forsaken the star-tingle and the music of the Aurora; I would never have flown again--I would have given all that up in a moment, without a thought, to be a gyptian boat wife and cook for him and share his bed and bear his children. But you cannot change what you are, only what you do. I am a witch. He .. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 284965e | Lyra felt herself moving into a kind of trance beyond sleep and waking: a state of conscious dreaming, almost, in which she was dreaming that she was being carried by bears to a city in the stars. She | Philip Pullman | ||
| 5a7962c | obsequious submissiveness to the religious authorities, and ultimately to Geneva. | Philip Pullman | ||
| a89116c | Habia pensado acaso que la vida carecia de significado y de proposito por haber desaparecido Dios? Si, lo habia pensado. - !Pero el presente existe! Mary Malone | Philip Pullman | ||
| 54fcf1b | She thought thought that without noticing that she'd thought it, and she soon forgot it, and only remembered it much later. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 62f002b | there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 3ab59f0 | they could discuss without quarreling and cooperate without getting in each other's way, | Philip Pullman | ||
| a6f07a2 | What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 7af9198 | Y durante buena parte del tiempo, la sabiduria ha tenido que trabajar en secreto, susurrando sus palabras, moviendose como un espia a traves de los lugares humildes del mundo mientras las cortes y los palacios estan ocupados por sus enemigos. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 5d9a8aa | This book contains a story and several other things. The other things might be connected with the story, or they might not; they might be connected to stories that haven't appeared yet. It's not easy to tell. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 5010062 | Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 9347659 | For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease." --from "America: A Prophecy" by William Blake" | Philip Pullman | ||
| 50864a3 | It was the loneliness of his death that upset Malcolm most. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 8311d72 | The terms of this combat are these. If Iofur Raknison kills me, then he will be king forever, safe from challenge or dispute. If I kill Iofur Raknison, I shall be your king. My first order to you all will be to tear down that palace, that perfumed house of mockery and tinsel, and hurl the gold and marble into the sea. Iron is bear-metal. Gold is not. Iofur Raknison has polluted Svalbard. I have come to cleanse it. Iofur Raknison, I challeng.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 5bce7d5 | probly | Philip Pullman | ||
| da23c3a | You cannot change what you are, only what you do | Philip Pullman | ||
| b066be7 | The temperature had disturbed the insects, and a cloud of midges made every outline hazy. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 745ce64 | But what matters is not the similarities your imagination finds, but the similarities that are implicit in the image, and they are not necessarily the same. I have noticed that the more imaginative readers are often the less successful. Their minds leap to what they think is there rather than waiting with patience. And what matters most of all is where the chosen meaning comes in the hierarch of meaning, you see, and for that there is no al.. | libraries library truth | Philip Pullman | |
| ed46501 | Una verdad referida con mala fe es peor que todas las mentiras. | Philip Pullman | ||
| cc4a1c0 | as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects. | Philip Pullman | ||
| dbf29b1 | And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the Aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that. | Philip Pullman |