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“many good liars have no imagination at all its which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know”
― Philip Pullman

“For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.”
― Phillip Pullman

“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, The Golden Compass

“Everything means something.”
― Philip Pullman, Lyra's Oxford

“That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.”
― Phillip Pullman

“Tell them stories.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“...because where we are is always the most important place.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.”
― Philip Pullman

“People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“because he's Will”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“You've got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.”
― Janet Fitch

“I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“It sickens me to think of you
a prevalence of void
unholy
immovable
damned. gifts.
an overblown sense of his own importance.
I wish you were dead.

forget about you.
crow
florid with
fantasies
it's so awful
a perfect imitation
a liability to love
forget you
Ingrid Magnussen

quite alone
masturbating
rot
disappointment
grotesque

Your arms cradle
poisons
garbage
grenades

Loneliness
long-distance cries
forever
never
response.

take everything
feel me?
the human condition

Stop
plotting murder
penitence
Cultivate it

you
forbid
appeal
rage
important
I
cringe

fuck
you
insane
person
dissonant and querulous

my
gas tanks marked FULL”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Interviewer: What is your greatest regret?
Gorey: That I don't have one”
― Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

“To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.”
― Edward Gorey

“Such excess of passion
is quite out of fashion”
― Edward Gorey, Amphigorey

“Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all”
― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials