Lyra Silvertongue Quotes

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

“Mr. Scoresby...told me there were truthtellers, and they needed to know what the truth was, so as to tell it. And there were liars, and they needed to know what the truth was, so they could change it or avoid it. And there were bullshitters, who didn't care about the truth at all. They weren't interested. What they spoke wasn't the truth and it wasn't lies; it was bullshit. All they were interested in was their own performance.”
― Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth

“But we shouldn't believe things because it makes us happy, she thought. We should believe things because they're true, and if that makes us unhappy that's very unfortunate, but it's not the fault of reason.”
― Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth

“The question was, she thought, was the universe alive or dead?”
― Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth

“Oh, but my dream, Will – I can’t tell you how strange it was! It was like when I read the alethiometer, all that clearness and understanding going so deep you can’t see the bottom, but clear all the way down.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass