# Quote — Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

> If they live in the world, they should see and touch and hear and learn things.

- Author: [Philip Pullman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-pullman.md)
- Book: [The Amber Spyglass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-pullman/the-amber-spyglass.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Pullman#The_Amber_Spyglass_(2000)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [knowledge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge.md), [curiosity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/curiosity.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-pullman/the-amber-spyglass/if-they-live
- JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-pullman/the-amber-spyglass/if-they-live.json

## More from this book

> "I remember. He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn’t live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place."
>
> "He said we had to build something…"
>
> "That’s why we needed our full life, Pan... we wouldn’t have been able to build it. No one could if they put themselves first. We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we’ve got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we’ll build…"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-pullman/the-amber-spyglass/i-remember-he-meant.md)

Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [the present](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-present.md)

> Had she thought there was no meaning in life, no purpose, when God had gone? Yes, she had thought that.
>
> “Well, there is now,” she said aloud, and again, louder: “There is now!”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-pullman/the-amber-spyglass/had-she-thought.md)

Topics: [god](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god.md), [meaning of life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life.md)

> But as the wave expended its force and the waters withdrew, the bleak rocks remained; there was no arguing with fate; neither his despair nor Lyra’s had moved them a single inch.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-pullman/the-amber-spyglass/but-as-the.md)

Topics: [fate](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fate.md), [despair](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/despair.md)