Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

The Clayr saw me, the Wallmaker made me, the King quenched me, the Abhorsen wields me so that no Dead shall walk in Life. For this is not their path.

I can see time, " whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love.

A breath?" she asked. She didn't want to kiss just any wooden man. He looked nice enough, but he might not be like his looks. A kiss seemed very forward. He might remember it, and make assumptions.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

Leadership does matter.

Spider-Man has always been a huge part of my life. I love the movies. I love the comics. And I always just wanted to be Spider-Man.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.