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“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Everything means something,” Lyra said severely. “We just have to find out how to read it.”
― Philip Pullman, Lyra's Oxford

“Perhaps some particles move backwards in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don't understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are. There are many things we haven't yet learned how to read.”
― Philip Pullman, Lyra's Oxford

“Well, all right then. Finding out that you're an Arctic hare – that's surprising. Damn, I was surprised."
"Surprised? Why the hell were you surprised? I ain't surprised," said Hester. "Iorek's right. I always knew I had more class than a rabbit.”
― Philip Pullman, Once Upon a Time in the North

“This is what’ll happen,” she said, “and it’s true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, all the particles that make you up will loosen and float apart, just like your dæmons did. If you’ve seen people dying, you know what that looks like. But your dæmons en’t just nothing now; they’re part of everything. All the atoms that were them, they’ve gone into the air and the wind and the trees and the earth and all the living things. They’ll never vanish. They’re just part of everything. And that’s exactly what’ll happen to you, I swear to you, I promise on my honor. You’ll drift apart, it’s true, but you’ll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“nuestro deber es cumplir las promesas que hagamos, por difíciles que sean.”
― Philip Pullman, El catalejo lacado

“El trabajo sin alegría es ruin; el trabajo sin dolor es ruin; el dolor sin trabajo es ruin; la alegría sin trabajo es ruin. John Ruskin”
― Philip Pullman, El catalejo lacado

“la historia de la vida humana ha consistido en una lucha entre la sabiduría y la estupidez.”
― Philip Pullman, El catalejo lacado

“que el Reino del Cielo había llegado a su fin. Que no debíamos vivir como si fuera más importante que la misma vida, porque lo más importante es siempre el lugar donde nos encontramos.”
― Philip Pullman, El catalejo lacado

“No. Some of them are just like this one, except for one detail. Imagine a world just like this, for example, but where every human being has an animal spirit accompanying them. A sort of visual spirit guide, animal totem, that sort of thing. Part of their own selves, but separate. For example.”
― Philip Pullman, The Collectors

“One strange thing about stories is that you sometimes know how long they’re going to be, even before you’ve begun thinking about them.”
― Philip Pullman, The Collectors

“It’s important to put it like that: not “I am a writer,” but rather “I write stories.” If you put the emphasis on yourself rather than your work, you’re in danger of thinking that you’re the most important thing. But you’re not. The story is what matters, and you’re only the servant. Your job is to get it out on time and in good order.”
― Philip Pullman, The Collectors

“You know, it isn’t really surprising that there are things about ourselves that still remain a mystery to us,” he said. “Maybe we should be comforted that the knowledge is there, even if it’s withheld for a while.”
― Philip Pullman, Serpentine

“How can knowing something be sinful?”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

“War asks many people to do unreasonable things.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

“Once we use the word spiritual, we don’t have to explain anymore, because it belongs to the Church then, and no one can question it.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

“It's about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

“The seeds of war are oft planted during times of peace.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“We are as the gods made us. Strong and weak, good and bad, cruel and kind, heroic and selfish. Know that if you would rule over the kingdom of men.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“I fed my last husband to my dragon. If you make me take another, I may eat him myself.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“Will you not weep?”
“I do not have the time for tears.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“Pride goes before a fall.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“Many vampires have blood-soaked pasts. Our histories are steeped in death and shadows.”
― Bella Higgin, Belle Morte