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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1) QUOTES

Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1) QUOTES

1 " Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

2 " Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

3 " 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. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

4 " Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker? "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

5 " Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

6 " Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

7 " I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

8 " Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

9 " I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

10 " A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

11 " I have walked in Death to the very precipice of the Ninth Gate," Abhorsen said quietly. "I know the secrets and horrors of the Nine Precincts. I do not know what lies beyond, but everything that lives must go there, in the proper time. That is the rule that governs our work as the Abhorsen, but it also governs us. You are the fifty-third Abhorsen, Sabriel. I have not taught you as well as I should—let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

12 " Prepare a crossing party," snapped Horyse. "A single person to cross. Miss Abhorsen, here. And Sergeant, if you or Private Rahise so much as talk in your sleep about what you may have heard here, then you'll be on gravedigging fatigues for the rest of your lives! "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

13 " You may call me Mogget. As to what I am, I was once many things, but now I am only several. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

14 " Garth on naming characters "I spend lots of time on all the names in the books... Sabriel herself, I tried many different combinations of different words, trying to create a new name. In fact, her name comes from trying to combine the heraldic term for black which is Sable, because I wanted something that felt dark and mysterious, with the "iel" ending that you find in angels' names. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

15 " 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 very forward. He might remember it, and make assumptions. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

16 " Garth on where Sabriel came from "Sabriel grew very much out of the story... Sometimes people ask me, 'Why did you write a strong young woman character?' I just thought she was more interesting than if she was a young man. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

17 " Going through the arch, from mud into snow, from bright sun into the pallid luminescence of a snowfall, from her past into her future. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

18 " Fear and realization of ignorance were strong medicines against stupid pride. "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

19 " Volí si stezku chodec, nebo stezka chodce? "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

20 " A zlo plodí zlo, zlo zamořuje místa a přitahuje k nim další zlé skutky... "

― Garth Nix , Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)