Quotes from Garth Nix, Abhorsen

Time and death sleep side by side.

Time plays tricks between here and home, " said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

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.