Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
Philip PullmanMen and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
Philip PullmanThe intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.
Philip PullmanWhen you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
Philip Pullman