Quotes by : Philip Pullman

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately....

I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous,....

All good things pass away.

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think....

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories....

Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that....

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

Ruta Skadi was four hundred and sixteen years old, with all the pride and knowledge of an adult witch....

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

Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What....