Garth Nix > Quotes

“Does the walker choose the path or the path choose the walker?”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

“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

“My parents are going to kill me!"
"That seems rather harsh...”
― Garth Nix, Sir Thursday

“Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.”
― Garth Nix, Abhorsen

“Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

“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, Sabriel

“Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

“Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.”
― Garth Nix, Mister Monday

“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

“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

“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, Lirael

“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.”
― Garth Nix, Lady Friday

“Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.”
― Garth Nix, Mister Monday

“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

“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, Sabriel

“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

“Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

“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

“I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“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.”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

“Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

“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!”
― Garth Nix, Superior Saturday

“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.”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

“Yep," said Arthur. Somehow yep seemed the most positive thing he could say. Stronger than yeah and more heroic than yes. He hoped he could live up to it.”
― Garth Nix, Drowned Wednesday

“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.”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

“Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.”
― Garth Nix