Garth Nix
Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.Collection: Charity
I’m not going,” he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer and sharper, till he was holding a trident as long as he was tall... “And anyone who tries to make me is going to suffer.” “Twice,” added the voice under the table.Collection: Voice
Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens.Collection: Matter
A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.Collection: Fall
I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of SabrielCollection: Baby
Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Cat
Sam picked up his pack, but before he could put it on, Mogget leaped onto it and slid under the top flap. All that could be seen of him were his green eyes and one white-furred ear. "Remember I advised against this way," he instructed. "Wake me when whatever terrible thing is a about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet.Collection: Eye
"It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic.Collection: Dream
When the dead do walk seek water's run, for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest lake to ward the dead and have and make. If water fails thee, fire's thy friend, if neither guards it will be thy end.Collection: Running
So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.Collection: Trying
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.Collection: Father
Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.Collection: Ancient
There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.Collection: Party
My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh.Collection: Parent
There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.Collection: Choices
May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?Collection: Trying
A Kiss," said Mogget sleepily. "Actually, just a breath would do. But you have to start kissing someone sometime, I suppose." "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 too forward.Collection: Nice
It's always better to be doing.Collection: Mogget
The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.Collection: Fear
Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.Collection: Finals
Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the bells. But on to more serious matters. Could you please rescue us? Prince Sameth's personal vessel is not quite what I'm used to, and he is eager to catch me a fish before my morning nap.Collection: Morning
Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major.Collection: Rain
Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.Collection: Mystery
It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other parts of the House, but we have Nothing well in hand here. I understand Nothing as no one else does! - Grim TuesdayCollection: Taken
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Laughing
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.Collection: Cheerful
Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works." "It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven.Collection: Blow
Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?Collection: Rude
He was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a necromancer's bells! Apart from that, he was quite handsome, which was another black mark as far as she was concerned.Collection: Black
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Fear
As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I'll feed you to the cat thing here. Understand?" "Yum," said Mogget. "Yes, sir!" mumbled the telephone operator, his hands shaking as he tried to smother the burning wreckage of his switchboard with a fire blanket.Collection: Cat
I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name." "Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?" "Boredom," said Soot.Collection: Names
VIDEO ARCHIVE- INTERVIEW 24768 . GOLD-EYE I like trees… grass… only birds in sky. People walking safe. Family No Creatures. Sleep all night safe. Walk under sun in own place. Grow plants. Build. Be father with mother. Have Children. A place like Petar told me. Home. After Change goes back… I want home.Collection: Mother
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!Collection: Mean
Bee stings are very educationalCollection: Educational
If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last.Collection: Dog
Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.Collection: Finals
All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go.Collection: Eye
Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble.Collection: Watches
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?Collection: Heart
I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.Collection: Bravery
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.Collection: Past
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.Collection: Dog
Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together. Arthur looked up and saw the fizzing sparkling crown coming down. I’m Arthur Penhaligon, he thought desperately... The crown was wedged tightly upon his head- and Arthur fell silently screaming into darkness.Collection: Blood
A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.Collection: Book
Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.Collection: Moon