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  • #1
    Philip Pullman
    “What is worth having is worth working for.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #2
    Philip Pullman
    “Imagination is a form of seeing”
    Phillip Pullman

  • #3
    Philip Pullman
    “Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.”
    Phillip Pullman

  • #4
    Philip Pullman
    “Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive.”
    Philip Pullman, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

  • #5
    Philip 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

  • #6
    Philip Pullman
    “Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all”
    Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials

  • #7
    Philip Pullman
    “But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
    Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

  • #8
    Philip Pullman
    “Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #9
    Philip Pullman
    “If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal.
    But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.”
    Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

  • #10
    Philip Pullman
    “One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.”
    Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

  • #11
    Philip Pullman
    “From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.”
    Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

  • #12
    Philip Pullman
    “It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither.”
    Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

  • #13
    Philip Pullman
    “Everything means something.”
    Philip Pullman, Lyra's Oxford

  • #14
    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

  • #15
    Philip Pullman
    “Thou shalt not might' reach the head but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart. Also: We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #16
    Philip Pullman
    “You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.”
    Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

  • #17
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “Not my daughter, you bitch!”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
    J.K. rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “Accio Brain!”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
    J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #29
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #30
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis



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