"Does the walker choose the path or the path choose the walker?"
— Garth Nix (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr)

"My parents are going to kill me!"
"That seems rather harsh..."
— Garth Nix (Sir Thursday)

"Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue."
— Garth Nix (Mister Monday)

"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 alone together.
I am not afraid, he said to himself.
"I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.""
— Garth Nix (Sabriel)

"'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 of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.'"
— Garth Nix (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr)

""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."
— Garth Nix (Abhorsen)

"The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures."
— Garth Nix (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr)

"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 the Dead down

Three and Five became stone and mortar

Four sees all in frozen water."
— Garth Nix

"Choosers will be beggers if the beggings not their chosing. "
— Garth Nix (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr)

"Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself."
— Garth Nix (Abhorsen)

"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."
— Garth Nix

"Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"
— Garth Nix

""Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog
"What does that mean?"
"I have no idea," said the Dog"
— Garth Nix (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr)

""'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." "
— Garth Nix (Sabriël)

"Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens."
— Garth Nix (Sabriel)

"Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"
— Garth Nix (Sabriel)

"Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill -- or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death."
— Garth Nix (Mister Monday)

""Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.""
— Garth Nix (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr)

""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.""
— Garth Nix (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr)

"My parent's are going to kill me!"
"That seems rather harsh..."
— Garth Nix (Sir Thursday)

"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."
— Garth Nix

"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 gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity."
— Garth Nix (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr)

"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."
— Garth Nix

"Does the walker choose the path or the path the walker?"
— Garth Nix (Sabriel)

""Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.""
— Garth Nix (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr)

"Does the Walker choose the Path, or the Path the Walker?"
— Garth Nix (Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr)