Garth Nix Quotes
Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.
There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.
I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel
The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.
Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.
Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.
Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.
Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.
But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.
There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.
Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.
Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!
I think having an open mind about these things is probably the most important thing, because even though I've never had an experience of the supernatural, something I couldn't explain.
I certainly have had experiences of a sense of wonder at the world and a feeling that even though it could all be explained rationally, it still feels that there is more to it.
So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?
More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.
Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh.
Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.
I enjoyed the army reserve, and I learned a lot from it, but I also... it helped me work out that I didn't want to live in that kind of closed environment.
