The Golden Compass Quotes
If you value your life, come no further!
Lyra Belacqua
[to Lyra] Do you wish to ride me?
Iorek Byrnison
Look, we can settle this like gentlemen!
Lord Asriel
Pantalaimon: The north?
[changes from Ferret to Ermine]
Pantalaimon: It's cold up there!
Ragnar Sturlusson: Is that all?
[hits Iorek]
Ragnar Sturlusson: Is that all? IS THAT AAAALL?
[Iorek swings at him and breaks his lower jaw off, then bites him in the throat, killing him]
Iorek Byrnison: Yes, that is all.
Marisa Coulter: Come with me, Lyra!
Lyra Belacqua: I'm not yours! I'll never be yours!
I will serve you in your campaign until you have a victory.
Iorek Byrnison
I need to go north! To fight!
Lyra Belacqua
War is coming Lyra.
Serafina Pekkala
Fra Pavel: Are you familiar with the Prophecy of the Witches?
Marisa Coulter: You think she is that child? She must be found.
Lord Asriel: I propose to discover a world much like our own in a parallel universe.
Fra Pavel: That is heresy!
Lord Asriel: That is the truth.
Lyra Belacqua: [upon receiving the alethiometer] What is this?
Master: It's an alethiometer. It tells the truth. You are meant to have it. You keep the alethiometer to yourself, it's of the utmost importance to yourself, to all of us, and perhaps to all creation.
