Quotes from Philip Pullman

La vida es dura, señor Scoresby, pero aun así no dejamos de aferrarnos a ella.

I will love you forever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again . . .

Hay personas tiernas y sentimentales, sobre todo en entre los más jóvenes, que se quedan con una muy mala impresión cuando les digo que yo escribo para ganar dinero. Les gusta tanto la idea del artista muriéndose de hambre en una buharda, que la pobreza se les antoja la situación indispensable para producir arte. Pero la preocupación [...] no es un buen estado de ánimo para escribir.

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.

Everybody has the right to form their own opinion and read what they like and come to their own conclusion about it... I trust the reader.

Lyra remembered her visit to his house

He was her devoted slave by this time; he would have followed her to the ends of the earth.

Hay personas tiernas y sentimentales, sobre todo entre los más jóvenes, que se quedan con una muy mala impresión cuando les digo que yo escribo para ganar dinero. Les gusta tanto la idea del artista muriéndose de hambre en una buharda, que la pobreza se les antoja la situación indispensable para producir arte. Pero la preocupación [...] no es un buen estado de ánimo para escribir.

She thought thought that without noticing that she'd thought it, and she soon forgot it, and only remembered it much later.

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.

Así como los seres humanos en general pueden influir en el clima, influimos en el lenguaje, y quienes lo utilizamos profesionalmente estamos obligados a cuidarlo.

Tutti siamo soggetti al fato. Però tutti dobbiamo agire come se non lo fossimo. O morire di disperazione.

by a scent of grown-upness, something disturbing but enticing at the same time: it was the smell of glamour.

La respuesta emocional del lector es algo muy valioso. Los relatos tienen que ganarse sus propias lágrimas, sin hurtarlas de ningún otro sitio.

they could discuss without quarreling and cooperate without getting in each other's way

There were mysteries enough without imagining more.

They sat for a while longer and then parted. For it was late and they were old and anxious.

Lord Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. It was a face to be dominated by, or to fight: never a face to patronize or pity. All his movements were large and perfectly balanced, like those of a wild animal, and when he appeared in a room like this, he seemed a wild animal held in a cage too small for it.

When you're young you do think that things last forever. Unfortunately, they don't.

La serpiente era más sutil que cualquier animal del campo creado por Dios. Génesis

Anyone who doesn't laugh has something on their conscience, you can be sure of that. - from: 'The Twelve Brothers

he sent a note to Lyra inviting her to dine with him in the Master's lodging on the evening after the Founder's Feast. She was a little puzzled, but not much concerned.

Debo ser discreto, no imponerle a la historia ni mi persona ni mis opiniones. Debo mantenerme sobrio durante las horas de trabajo; debo conservar la salud. No debo aceptar demasiados compromisos de otra índole: no se puede servir a dos señores. Debo seguir el consejo de la historia: hay secretos entre nosotros, y revelarlos sería incurrir en la más grosera de las deslealtades. Y debo estar dispuesto a aceptar determinadas obcecaciones y excentricidades de mi jefa.

Keep your powder dry.