Philip Pullman Quotes

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

Stuart stands and says, 'Come here,' and he's on my side of the room in one stride and he claps my hands to his hips and kisses my mouth like I am the drink he's been dying for all day and I've heard girls say it's like melting, that feeling. But I think it's like rising, growing even taller and seeing sights over a hedge, colors you've never seen before.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

We all want to believe in the magic of someone knowing what we're thinking.

'Secret' is about intimacy between two people and the connection you have with someone that goes beyond words.

from one thing, know ten thousand things

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel.

Why don’t I know You?” “Does anyone ever really know someone else?” “You think your cute,” she told him. “You think your gorgeous. But I’m the one guy here who knows better.” “So I’m not gorgeous?” Macey challenged. “Of course you are,” He started away, turned back at the last minute. “But I’m the guy who figured out that’s not all you are." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.' Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?' He met her eyes in a way that made her shiver pleasantly. 'I see you in a great many ways. It would be hard to blind me in all of them.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

He shook his head. “No. Because there's no one else out there who understands you like I do.” I waited for more. “That's it? You're not going to elaborate on what that means?” Those green eyes held me. “I don't think I need to.

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

And she knew without opening her eyes that it was Daniel. No other body in the universe fit hers so well.

The more you look, the more you will see.

The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.