His Dark Materials Quotes

#1. Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.

Philip Pullman

#2. I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't ... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Helen Oyeyemi

#3. There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'

Amy Bloom

#4. I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn't any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.

Philip Pullman

#5. Everything means something.

Philip Pullman

#6. So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

Philip Pullman

#7. Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#8. On THE AMBER SPYGLASS:
If this plotline was a motorist, it would have been arrested for driving while intoxicated, if it had not perished in the horrible drunk accident where it went headlong over the cliff of the author's preachy message, tumbled down the rocky hillside, crashed, and burned.

John C. Wright

#9. The rage flared up in me so fast, so strong, that I actually forgot to slap him.

Alexandra Bracken

#10. But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.

Philip Pullman

#11. Ax swiveled his stalk eyes toward me.

Katherine Applegate

#12. Every atom of me and every atom of you.

Philip Pullman

#13. Sometimes your home isn't where you were born,

Karina Halle

#14. I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Jonathan Kozol

#15. If oceans of time
could grant
heart one simple
desire
We would be
lovers afloat
on trained trapeze
high wire
Pleasurably bound by
invisible chords
of rapture
Harnessed in mid air
embraced foiled
skilled arms of capture

Zuky Rose Leigh

#16. Peter was now standing very close - as if he wanted to comfort me - as if he knew how hurt I felt that Mrs Knowles had not asked me to play or to sing. And I did feel comforted. It was as if a tide of warmth was carrying me out of myself, inclining me to trust him and to conduct myself well.

Jennifer Paynter

#17. In investing it is never wrong to change your mind. It is only wrong to change your mind and do nothing about it.

Seth Klarman

#18. MAN, IF YOU ARE BETTER, EVERYTHING WILL BE BETTER IN THE WHOLE OF YOUR FATEFULLNESS.

Josef Zezulka

#19. The Old Fortress at Tirfang, it had a bad name: witches built it, raised it by magic, infecting even the ordinary materials in which they worked - stone, timber, and slate - with their dark sorceries.

Madeline Howard

#20. Are pervs only pervs if you don't find them attractive?

Rick Yancey

#21. He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

Philip Pullman

#22. Adiation ... the biggest lobby ... in the world. It's involved in university research ... industries ... the whole medical profession.., the whole military establishment, and the economic and military policy of the country depends on people being willing to handle radio-active materials.

Rosalie Bertell

#23. He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.

Tom Tancredo