Garth Nix Quotes

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• Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.
• Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.
• I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.
• Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing in…
• 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.…
• The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you…
• 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.…
• My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh...
• Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.
• Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
• 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.…
• Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl…
• Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
• Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the…
• 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…
• 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…
• Five Great Charters knit the land Together linked, hand in hand One in the people who wear the crown Two in the folk who keep…
• Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.
• Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.
• Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens.

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