Quotes from Garth Nix

Keys to the Kingdom Mister Monday Garth Nix BOOK ONE

We are one …… I am what she was, she is what I became

A young woman who until the very end chose neither wisely or well

É o caminhante que escolhe o caminho ou o caminho o caminhante?

suppose that I have to go somewhere, since my pleasant retreat has been destroyed. Perhaps, ipso facto, pursuant to the circumstances, I may accompany this potential heir-designate until further information is forthcoming one way or another." "Pleasant retreat!" said Arthur. "That was a prison—you…you were supposed to break out of it and do your duty. Let the Will be done, my foot!

A shadow creeps along the wall More shadows sweep across the hall Many shadows leap and dance and fall But shadows need both dark and light No shadows crawl in blackest night

Anyone can go into Death," said Mogget, with a smirk. Coming back again is the difficult part.

You thought that we limit the choices of our students… We do not, but it is a sad fact that the great majority limit themselves.

I'm clearly deep in an absolute sea of shit and I want to know what direction to swim in to get out of it.

Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.

Come sleep, oh sleep, the certain knot of peace.

The hemispheres had been separated by a strange barrier made of seven different materials, including bone.

Yes,' she said slowly and clearly. 'I will carry the chain, and do whatever I can to help.

What do we do? asked the next-oldest puppy, one who rarely spoke. What can we do? Watch. Wait. Protect the princesses. Keep them cheerful and unafraid. They will need whole hearts and the memory of happiness, at least, to have any chance of doing what must be done.

Should have told you . . . betrayed . . . the Bile . . .

Who in an orchestra is most likely to be struck by lightning?" he called to his children. "The conductor.

What Great Beast will have their solitude pierced by your grasping little voices?

Music is a great balm. Another thing evil sorcerers give up. They cannot abide music, for it can conjure all human emotions, most particularly joy and happiness.

Will Morven be a good queen? Um, said Anya, flustered. She's the oldest... Bert's eyes opened wider, questioningly. And that makes her fit to rule? Tell me, in your reading, do you study history?

Bert and Dehlia had planted the seed of thought in her mind, and it was growing away busily putting out new shoots of thought, all of which were quite bothersome, because they were about things like responsibility and fairness, and thinking about others, and why being a princess perhaps should be about more than just having a nice library and three meals a day, particularly when other people didn't have these things...

Might have been and could have done, neither worth thinking on,' said Huire, repeating one of their mother's favourite sayings.

I will not give up. It is the right thing to do, no matter the consequences.

And your otter friend is eating by ... or in ... the pool. But it is as well that you should check. That is the mark of a leader.

Pause friend, be smelled and enter!...