Lyra Character Quotes

CHARACTER QUOTES - LYRA

STUDENT INSTRUCTIONS:  With your team, read your quotes.  Together, decide if Lyra’s quotations reflect an eleven year old’s innocence – or not? Be ready to support your answer with specific details or word choices.  As a group, decide on three adjectives that define Lyra’s character based on these quotations.  Make personal connections: Which quotations is most like you? Which is least like you?  Share within your group  Share within a grand conversation

1. “It’s a good thing I didn’t”, (leave) she whispered back. “We wouldn’t have seen the Master put poison in the wine otherwise.”

2. “You’re supposed to know about conscience, aren’t you? How can I just go and sit in the library or somewhere and twiddle my thumbs, knowing what’s going to happen? I don’t intend to do that , I promise you.”

3. “It is to do with me,” she said. “If you wanted me to be a spy in the wardrobe, you ought to tell me what I’m spying about.”

4. “But why? Why is my place here? Why can’t I come to the North with you? I want to see the Northern Lights and bears and icebergs and everything. I want to know about Dust. And that city in the air. Is it another world?”

5. “They got Roger. Them bloody Gobblers, they oughter catch ‘em and bloody kill em! I hate ‘em! And you don’t care, else you’d all stop work and go and look for him right now! I hate you.”

CHARACTER QUOTES - LYRA STUDENT INSTRUCTIONS:  With your team, read your quotes.  Together, decide if Lyra’s quotations reflect an eleven year old’s innocence – or not? Be ready to support your answer with specific details or word choices.  As a group, decide on three adjectives that define Lyra’s character based on these quotations.  Make personal connections: Which quotations is most like you? Which is least like you?  Share within your group  Share within a grand conversation

1. She sat on the roof, chin in hands. “We better rescue him, Pantalaimon. Course, it’ll be dangerous.”

2. “Where we going to sleep, Pan? A doorway somewhere. Don’t want to be seen though. They’re all so open.”

3. “And then last night at this cocktail party I found out what they were really doing. Mrs. Coulter was one of the Gobblers herself, and she was going to use me to help her catch more kids.”

4. “He didn’t tell me anything about it. Only that Id have to work out how to read it by myself.”

5. “I want to come north. I want to come and help rescue the kids. That’s what I set out to do when I run away from Mrs. Coulter. And even before that I meant to rescue my friend Roger the kitchen boy who was took.”

6. “I can do navigating and I can take anbaromagnetic readings off the aurora, and I know what parts of a bear you can eat.”

1. “I think it’d be best if I help you, Farder Coram,” she said, “Because I probably know more about the Gobblers that anyone else, being as I was nearly one of them.”

2. “I just make my mind go clear and then it’s sort of like looking down into water. You got to let your eyes find the right level, because that’s the only one that’s in focus. Something like that.”

3. “Listen, you got to promise not to take vengeance. They done wrong taking your armor, but you just got to put up with that.”

4. “There’s a child or a ghost down in that village. I don’t know for certain. I want to go and find him and bring him back to Lord Faa and the others if I can.”

5. “Don’t you dare laugh. I’ll tear your lungs out if you laugh at him! That’s all he had to cling onto, just an old dried fish, that’s all he had for a daemon to love and be kind to.”

1. “No one’ll notice if we take a look around,” said Lyra. “It’ll take ‘em ages to count everyone, and we can say we just followed someone else and got lost.”

2. Lyra said to them, “Listen, you better go and keep watch, right. Billy, you go that way, and Roger, watch out they way we just come. We en’t got long.”

3. “I want to let these poor things go.” she said fiercely. “I’m going to smash the glass and let ‘em out.”

4. “We must just pretend to be stupid till she sees us, and then say we were kidnapped. And nothing about the gyptians or Iorek Byrnison especially.”

5. “Keep going. Follow the bear tracks! He come up with the gyptians, so the tracks’ll lead us to where they are! Just keep walking!”

6. “But what I wonder is, why’s he coming to Svalbard? They’ll fight him. They might kills him . . .I love Iorek. I love him so much I wish he wasn’t coming.”

CHARACTER QUOTES - LYRA

STUDENT INSTRUCTIONS:  With your team, read your quotes.  Together, decide if Lyra’s quotations reflect an eleven year old’s innocence – or not? Be ready to support your answer with specific details or word choices.  As a group, decide on three adjectives that define Lyra’s character based on these quotations.  Make personal connections: Which quotations is most like you? Which is least like you?  Share within your group  Share within a grand conversation

1. “I’ve got something very important and secret to tell you, Your Majesty and I think I ought to tell you in private, really.”

2. “I suppose it’s the alethiometer,” she said unhappily. “It’s what I thought all along. I’ve got to take it to Lord Asriel before she gets it. It she gets it, we’ll all die.”

3. “You’re my father, en’t you? So you should have told me before. You shouldn’t hide things like that from people, because they feel stupid when they find out, and that’s cruel.”

4. “Why do they do these things to children, Pan? Do they all hate children so much that they want to tear them apart like this? Why do they do it?”

5. “We thought Dust must be bad, too, because they were grown up and they said so. But what if it isn’t? What if it’s . . .”