Quotes from Philip Pullman

I want to live with you for ever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life until I die, years and years and years away.

La nature est un temple où de vivants piliers / Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles.

truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. • WILLIAM BLAKE •

Si los ángeles no lo lograron, ¿cómo osa siquiera planteárselo un hombre?

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.

No tenía más familia que aquella, e incluso hubiera podido pasar por su verdadera familia, si Lyra hubiera sabido qué significaba eso

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.

She's mad. Best leave her be, in case it's catching.

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.

Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.

with ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud … • JOHN MILTON •

Capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.' You

Voltò le spalle. Dietro di loro c'erano dolore, morte e terrore; davanti dubbio, pericolo e misteri insondabili. Ma non erano soli. Così Lyra e il suo daimon voltarono le spalle al mondo in cui erano nati, e guardarono verso il sole e camminarono nel cielo.

The wonder was in her, and the skepticism was in the world, and the coolness was in both.

The magician arrived. He was called Johannes Agrippa, and he looked at us, at me and Dinessa, and went to my father's study to talk in private.

Así procede la iglesia; todas hacen lo mismo: controlar, destruir y erradicar cualquier sensación placentera.

Si pensó por un momento que iba a dejar a mi hija al cuidado de un grupo de hombres obsesionados con la sexualidad, unos hombres con las uñas sucias, que apestan a sudor de varios meses, unos hombres cuya enfermiza imaginación reptaría sobre el cuerpo de mi hija como un enjambre de cucarachas… Si cree que estoy dispuesta a entregarles a mi hija, es usted más estúpido de lo que supone que soy yo.

Durante o jantar

But Iorek and Iofur were more than just two bears. There were two kinds of beardom opposed here, two futures, two destinies. Iofur had begun to take them in one direction, and Iorek would take them in another, and in the same moment, one future would close forever as the other began to unfold.

It was worth living a difficult life, if you had a great aim like that.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not," said the witch, "or die of despair

Me parece que el sitio adecuado para plantar cara a la crueldad es aquel donde uno la encuentra, del mismo modo que es buen sitio para prestar ayuda aquel donde uno se topa con alguien necesitado.

I want to live with you forever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life till I die, years and years and years away. I don't want a memory, just a memory

an' it's the difference between good and evil. Evil can be unscrupulous, and good can't. Evil has nothing to stop it doing what it wants, while good has one hand tied behind its back. To do the things it needs to do to win, it'd have to become evil to do 'em.