Abhorsen (Abhorsen, #3)

by Garth Nix

“Time never truly falters,”

the Charter seemed to suddenly . . . not be.” “It was her coming,” said the Dog. “It is her fate, that her knowing self will be forever outside what she chose to make, the Charter that her unknowing self is part of.

“Time and Death sleep side by side,” said the Dog. “Both are in Astarael’s domain. She has helped us, in her own way.”

is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.”

day breaks not it is my heart

another little fear flowered in her heart.

“Bound and broken,”