Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass Quotes

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

All good things pass away.

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

That’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.

Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.

when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.

The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.