The Book of Dust Quotes

“We need the holes where one world opens up to another. A system isn’t complete unless there’s a hole in it. We need the things we can’t explain, things we can’t prove, or else we die of suffocation.”
― Philip Pullman, The Book of Dust: The Rose Field

“She felt a wide, still melancholy, not anguish, not misery, but the endless gray light of a day on a motionless sea, as she thought about what she was saying and saw more implications. It was like watching the sand darken slowly as a tide came in, along the whole length of the shore, as far as she could see, the water seeping through, under everything there was, dissolving every bond.”
― Philip Pullman, The Book of Dust: The Rose Field