Quotes from Garth Nix

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

My name is Clariel,' she said very clearly. 'Abhorsen, please help me die the final death. We must hurry, before she comes.

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

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

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

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.'

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books.

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

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

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.

My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh...

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

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

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.

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

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

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.

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

Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?

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.

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.

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.