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Philip Pullman quotes about growing up

British Writer October 19, 1946

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It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. Everyone tested it when they were growing up: seeing how far they could pull apart, coming back with intense relief. Philip Pullman
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you. Philip Pullman
But suppose your dmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up. Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman quote: "You going to be a scientist when you grow up? That sort of..."
You going to be a scientist when you grow up? That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got. Philip Pullman

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