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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1e80807 | One hears all sorts of things. The question is whether they matter. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 0661e88 | Lyra swore with every word she knew. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 1dcdd83 | She wasn't sure what she wanted to do, except that she knew that if she fooled around for long enough, without fretting, or nagging herself, she'd find out. | knowledge life-lessons mary-malone philosophy | Philip Pullman | |
| 20230f5 | because the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people. | Philip Pullman | ||
| f713705 | When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 9c95afc | The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing. | technology tools | Philip Pullman | |
| 56e0653 | Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous | Philip Pullman | ||
| 6c3d7d7 | I wish I'd seen, as I was writing it, that it would be much more effective if he motivation were love; that he does these terrible things out of sheer compassion. He's killing people in order to save their souls....It's much more interesting, because much more realistic, when there's a struggle between different goods. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 66b9f43 | Anything that was associated with human workmanship and human thought was surrounded by Shadows.... | Philip Pullman | ||
| cca5299 | One future would close for ever as the other began to unfold. | Philip Pullman | ||
| fd5c105 | Good intentions never wrote a story worth reading. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 48cf678 | Somewhere out there is the origin of all the Dust, all the death, the sin, the misery, the destructiveness in the world. Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it... That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 57bfbb5 | She's mad. Best leave her be, in case it's catching. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 05cdc28 | I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 4af26f7 | Tutti siamo soggetti al fato. Pero tutti dobbiamo agire come se non lo fossimo. O morire di disperazione. | fate | Philip Pullman | |
| 455f39f | with no more weight than a shadow. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 863f100 | There's others who longed to be dead when they were alive, poor souls; lives full of pain or misery; killed themselves for a chance of a blessed rest, and found that nothing had changed except for the worse, and this time there was no escape; you can't make yourself alive again. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 2163a97 | nor that she saw them as human-formed only because her eyes expected to. If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of intelligence and feeling. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 7e53584 | whatever humanness he had left felt the strangest of pleasures: that of offering eager obedience to a stronger power that was wholly right. | Philip Pullman | ||
| a2a7bdc | Where did this love come from? I don't know; it came to me like a thief in the night, and now I love her so much my heart is bursting with it. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 7c4f66b | but there are fates that even the most powerful have to submit to. There is nothing I can do to help you change the way things are. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 4503f9a | He couldn't possibly have said why. He knew it at once, as strongly as he knew that fire burned and kindness was good. | Philip Pullman | ||
| dc86ca8 | Gli emblemi potevano essere facilmente rimossi, ma la memoria e l'affetto erano piu difficili da cancellare. | Antonia Fraser | ||
| dd9da8f | Kings who become prisoners are not far from death. | marie-antoinette | Antonia Fraser | |
| c720dee | If you thought for one moment that I would release my daughter into the care -- the care! -- of a body of men with a feverish obsession with sexuality, men with dirty fingernails, reeking of ancient sweat, men whose furtive imaginations would crawl over her body like cockroaches -- if you thought I would expose my child to that... you are more stupid than you take me for. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 0b6a3fa | Its purpose was to defend democracy in this country, first of all. Then to defend the principles of freedom of thought and expression. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 543f246 | Ever since Pope John Calvin had moved the seat of the Papacy to Geneva and set up the Consistorial Court of Discipline, the Church's power over every aspect of life had been absolute. | Philip Pullman | ||
| bcc89cf | Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful? | Philip Pullman | ||
| 3e46b37 | Now, I want to get going, but I've only got one leg. Could you find one? | Philip Pullman | ||
| 0f0dd66 | JACK: I don't understand why you feel like an onion. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 9af403c | ACTRESS: Nonsense! It was an automaton controlled by the boy's mesmeric waves as part of a plot organised by my rivals. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 2431245 | You'll be much more impressive if you stay silent and mysterious. | Philip Pullman | ||
| e7310a1 | Find the girl and the boy. Waste no more time. You must play the serpent. | Philip Pullman | ||
| b7b8935 | This time the Empress was supposed to have asked the celebrated healer and pretender to miraculous powers, John Joseph Gassner: "Will my daughter be happy?" His reply was suitably gnomic: "There are crosses for all shoulders." 3" | Antonia Fraser | ||
| c342fdc | a modern definition of terrorism: 'the weapon of the weak, pretending to be strong'. | Antonia Fraser | ||
| 8639e35 | People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them. | predilection | Antonia Fraser | |
| d7ab607 | Wherever I may be In the woods or in the fields Whatever the hours of day Be it dawn or the eventide My heart still feel it yet The eternal regret... As I sink into my sleep The absent one is near Alone upon my couch I feel his beloved touch | mary-queen-of-scots | Mary Queen of Scots Translated by Antonia Fraser | |
| 0b31855 | Maundy Thursday | Alison Weir | ||
| ad9f645 | Shrovetide. | Alison Weir | ||
| f50b992 | large and excellent joints, the delicacies and cleanliness customary in Italy were wanting | Alison Weir | ||
| 708cf0e | Swearing, drunkenness, "haunting bad houses," fighting, and drawing graffiti--hugh penises were a favourite--on the palace walls were all punishable by warnings," | Alison Weir | ||
| d7d4584 | The King ruled in consultation with his chief nobles, who fromed the nucleus of what was in effect a military aristocracy, whose power was centered on the castles they used to subdue and dominate the land. | Alison Weir | ||
| 1709c9c | importuned | Alison Weir | ||
| 565209d | face that journey again in the winter." Arthur did not answer, and when she turned to look at him, she saw that" | Alison Weir |