Top 35 Lyra's Quotes
#1. There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist.
Lyra Parish
#2. Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#4. Lyra felt herself moving into a kind of trance beyond sleep and waking: a state of conscious dreaming, almost, in which she was dreaming that she was being carried by bears to a city in the stars. She
Philip Pullman
#5. Have you heard the saying, 'sex sells'? Well, I'm the supplier.
Lyra Parish
#6. Love could be cruel, and toxic, and overpowering. Love could jab you in the heart and leave you dry, but love could also make the birds sing louder, make the music sound lovelier, and make the wind blow sweeter.
Lyra Parish
#7. Finally, and almost simultaneously, the children discovered what it was like to be drunk. "Do they like doing this?" gasped Roger, after vomiting copiously. "Yes," said Lyra, in the same condition. "And so do I," she added stubbornly. Lyra
Philip Pullman
#8. Doesn't it scare you having your death close by all the time?" said Lyra. "Why ever would it? If he's there, you can keep an eye on him. I'd be a lot more nervous not knowing where he was.
Philip Pullman
#9. You're different. You are the virgin who stayed.
Lyra Parish
#11. 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
#13. It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a feminist story!" I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons.
Philip Pullman
#14. It's just so beautiful," said Lyra, miming wiping a tear from the corner of her eye. "Our little Valerie's learning how to play nicely with the other children." "I will kill you all in your sleep," I said. Lyra was still laughing when the town car arrived.
Seanan McGuire
#15. Lyra had to adjust to her new sense of her own story, and that couldn't be done in a day.
Philip Pullman
#16. The powers of this world are very strong. Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current. Go well, Lyra; bless you, child, bless you. Keep your own counsel.
Philip Pullman
#17. I'm always two inches too short and ten pounds too heavy. Figures.
Lyra Parish
#18. Her father was lying back in his chair, lazy and powerful, his eyes as fierce as his daemon's. She didn't love him, she couldn't trust him, but she had to admire him, and the extravagant luxury he'd assembled in this desolate wasteland, and the power of his ambition.
Philip Pullman
#19. Lyra and Caelum: the two replicas with names plucked straight from the stars.
Lauren Oliver
#20. Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must.
Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.
Philip Pullman
#21. How could someone so rude, condescending, and assholish have this effect on me? Was assholish even a word?
Lyra Parish
#22. And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?"
"The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.
Philip Pullman
#23. The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he found himself turning into the night, the starlight, the air ... and then he was gone, leaving behind such a vivid little burst of happiness.
Philip Pullman
#24. The soul can love more than once," Tristen confirmed. "No one's love will be the same, but the feelings are just as valid.
Lyra Daniels
#25. Whatever happened behind now was simply that: behind. Lyra had left it. She felt she was leaving the world altogether, so remote and intent she was, so high they were climbing, so strange and uncanny was the light that bathed them.
Philip Pullman
#27. I think I'm undergoing a Lyra-2-type paranoia onslaught, but I'll be okay again in a minute.
Brian W. Aldiss
#28. In the midst of fear Lyra knelt by Lanre's body and breathed his name. Her voice was a beckoning. Her voice was love and longing. Her voice called him to live again. But Lanre lay cold and dead.
Patrick Rothfuss
#29. And the Jedi?" Lyra asked. "Also doing what they can. But remember, Dooku is one of their own, and he's a crafty opponent. At times he seems to be able to read our minds, if not simply outguess us.
James Luceno
#30. Come on, baby. I'm going to take you on the ride of your life.
Lyra Parish
#31. Lyra has never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.
Philip Pullman
#32. That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak.
Lauren Oliver
#33. Truly," he said, "I am dead ... I'm dead, and I'm going to Hell ... " "Hush," said Lyra, "we'll go together.
Philip Pullman
#34. We might not be able to change the entire world but we can surely leave a mark by positively touching people's lives one at a time.
Lyra Parish
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