All things from the north are devilish.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

What is worth having is worth working for.

The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome that because it helps me.

Once upon a time' lasts forever.

Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without thinking twice about it, just like you followed Roger; and that would be two lives gone for nothing, my life wasted like yours. No, we should spend our whole lifetimes together, good long busy lives, and if we can't spend them together, we... we'll have to spend them apart.