...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyraโs Oxford and Willโs would lie over each other again, like transparent images on two sheets of film being moved closer and closer until they mergedโalthough they would never truly touch.
Philip PullmanThere's some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a mistake, someone would have to pay; made no difference. There's others who longed to be dead when they were alive, poor souls; lives full of pain or misery; killed themselves for a chance of a blessed rest, and found that nothing had changed except for the worse, and this time there was no escape; you can't make yourself alive again.
Philip PullmanWe measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #โ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
Philip PullmanItโs like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you canโt do is choose neither.
Philip PullmanIf I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?
Philip Pullman