Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass Quotes

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

When 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.

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.

It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.

Tell them stories.