Philip Pullman World Quotations

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.