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.

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

It's always better to be doing.

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

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel

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

I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.

A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.

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.

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?

But you should never jump unless you know you can fly, or at least float. Nobody wants to fall. That’s how you end up hurt.

A road trip with your ancient mommy is just what you need after falling off a mountain and having your soul ripped out by your best friend.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.