The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservativesโ or evolution, for example. It shows where your moral center is. So you are in the message business whether you like it or not.
Philip PullmanThereโs been terrible things we seen, enโt there? And more a coming, moreโn likely. So I think Iโd rather not know whatโs in the future. Iโll stick to the present.
Philip PullmanIf 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 PullmanThat'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 PullmanMarisa! Marisa!โ The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyraโs mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.
Philip Pullman