The Golden Compass Quotes

“You cannot change what you are, only what you do”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“With every second that went past, with every sentence she spoke, she felt a little strength flowing back. And now that she was doing something difficult and familiar and never quite predictable, namely lying, she felt a sort of mastery again, the same sense of complexity and control that the alethiometer gave her. She had to be careful not to say anything obviously impossible; she had to be vague in some places and invent plausible details in others; she had to be an artist, in short.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“No tenía más familia que aquella, e incluso hubiera podido pasar por su verdadera familia, si Lyra hubiera sabido qué significaba eso”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“Detrás de ellos había dolor, muerte, miedo; delante estaba el peligro, insondables misterios. Pero no estaban solos.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“Nosotros seguimos siendo un solo ser, los dos formamos una sola criatura”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“When you're young, you do think that things last forever,”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“We got it wrong, thought Pan. We got it all wrong about Roger. We thought we were helping him..." She checked, and kissed Roger's still face clumsily, several times. "We got it wrong," she said.
"Next time we'll check everything and ask all the questions we can think of, then. We'll do better next time.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass