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Author: Philip Pullman
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  1. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    Find the girl and the boy. Waste no more time.You must play the serpent.
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  2. Philip Pullman _ The Scarecrow and His Servant

    You'll be much more impressive if you stay silent and mysterious.
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  3. Philip Pullman _ The Scarecrow and His Servant

    ACTRESS: Nonsense! It was an automaton controlled by the boy's mesmeric waves as part of a plot organised by my rivals.
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  4. Philip Pullman _ The Scarecrow and His Servant

    JACK: I don't understand why you feel like an onion.
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  5. Philip Pullman _ The Scarecrow and His Servant

    Now, I want to get going, but I've only got one leg. Could you find one?
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  6. Philip Pullman _ The Subtle Knife

    Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful?
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  7. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    Ever since Pope John Calvin had moved the seat of the Papacy to Geneva and set up the Consistorial Court of Discipline, the Church's power over every aspect of life had been absolute.
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  8. Philip Pullman _ La Belle Sauvage

    Its purpose was to defend democracy in this country, first of all. Then to defend the principles of freedom of thought and expression."
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  9. Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass

    If you thought for one moment that I would release my daughter into the care ― the care! ― of a body of men with a feverish obsession with sexuality, men with dirty fingernails, reeking of ancient sweat, men whose furtive imaginations would crawl over her body like cockroaches ― if you thought I would expose my child to that... you are more stupid than you take me for.
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  10. Philip Pullman _ The Golden Compass

    He couldn't possibly have said why. He knew it at once, as strongly as he knew that fire burned and kindness was good.
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  11. Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass

    ...but there are fates that even the most powerful have to submit to. There is nothing I can do to help you change the way things are.
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  12. Philip Pullman _ The Amber Spyglass

    Where did this love come from? I don't know; it came to me like a thief in the night, and now I love her so much my heart is bursting with it.
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