She felt loose and free and light in a universe without purpose.

Philip Pullman


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It was a jaw cracking, lung-bursting yawn that lasted almost a minute.

Philip Pullman


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The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you’re better off not touching it until you’re all grown up. I’m going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don’t open it.

Philip Pullman

Tags: reading books learning children maturity



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Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

Philip Pullman

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...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford and Will’s would lie over each other again, like transparent images on two sheets of film being moved closer and closer until they merged–although they would never truly touch.

Philip Pullman


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The fact was that where Will is concerned, she was developing a new kind of sense, as if he were simply more in focus than anyone she'd known before. Everything about him was clear and close and immediate.

Philip Pullman


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Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

Philip Pullman

Tags: freedom evil religion censorship first-amendment freedom-of-speech hubris



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The park was a scruffy patch of grass, muddy in winter and dusty in summer, set about with a few dozen trees, a bandstand, and a pond on which swam a family of depraved and malevolent ducks.

Philip Pullman


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Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affairs, so the Scholars, for their part, would have been unable to see the rich seething stew of alliances and enmities and feuds and treaties which was a child’s life in Oxford. Children playing together: how pleasant to see! What could be more innocent and charming?

Philip Pullman

Tags: politics innocence childhood irony rivalry



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Well," said Mary, "love is ferocious, too.

Philip Pullman

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