43 quotes found
“Time and death sleep side by side.”
“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
“It was like someone far away calling someone elses name.”
“It was like someone far away calling someone else’s name.”
“Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it.”
“Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.”
“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 last five seconds they ever would have al...”
“The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.”
“Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh...”
“When the dead do walk seek water's run,for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest laketo ward the dead and have and make.If water fails thee, fire's thy friend, if neither g...”
“Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.”
“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...”
“I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.”
“Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were...”
“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.”
“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.”
“Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.”
“"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 gu...”
“If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minori...”
