Quotes from Garth Nix

If she had been in a pointing competition, she would have lost points.

In general, one cannot go back. But in going forward, you may achieve some of what you desired of the past. If you can survive, anything may happen. - The Old One

Devoid of life, it was also devoid of the Dead.

Madness is unfortunately not incompatible with government.

Soft, the snow falling/Steam spiraling from coffee/The slain cold and still

A passion for something was energy to be exploited, not thwarted.

Oog aim vack

They passed it late in the afternoon, their single sail stretched to bursting, clinker-built hull heeling well over, bow slicing up a column of spray that salted mouths, eyes and bodies.

They bear a brand above their brows that mocks our Charter mark - an ugly, moving scar that proclaims their allegiance.' 'Oh good! That should make it --' 'The adept among them can disguise this, of course. Usually as a Charter mark.' Latimer emitted something between a growl and a sigh of exasperation.

There's always a few copies floating around the school, handed down from older sisters and so on,' said Kierce. 'But not for First Formers.' 'This copy still has the chapters that usually get torn out,' said Hazra with fascination. 'Look, all the positions for men and men, and women and women, and the... gosh... what is that with the feathers --' Kierce took the book back and closed it with a snap. 'Perhaps not for a Fourth Former either,' she said.

Stop! By the Keys I hold, I order the Nothing to stop! House, you must hold against the Void!

For a moment, she wondered why she was not shocked herself. But she wasn't. Everything changed that day at Coldhallow House, that last day, not least Elinor herself. She wasn't sure what she was to become, but it was not someone who would be shocked by the unconventional.

she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well. "We

She very rarely cried, but being brave all the time took an enormous amount of effort. Sometimes she just got tired of keeping everything together.

the Secondary Realms. Not from Earth, for a change. Probably @@@@@@@@ or Æ???f‡." "Where?" asked Arthur. "Who?" He couldn't even begin

I don't want to be that kind of sorcerer, said Anya swiftly. Besides, you wouldn't...you wouldn't love me then, would you? We will always love you, said Tanitha. But you would not know that if you become like the Duke. He has grown too cold form his magic, and has forgotten what it means to love.

She was no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. She was the Abhorsen-in-Waiting.

Nothing in this world better reflects the difference between life and death than the power of choice.

Knowledge is always useful, even if...if it is not immediately apparent how it will be useful.

Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it. There's plenty I'm afraid of. Just not vampires.' 'We fear the unknown,' she said. 'You must know a lot about vampires.

All this, combined with typical British reticence to discuss their relationship and its problems, led them to behave in such a repressed way to each other that everyone else around them knew immediately they were in love.

The hour we spent sneaking through the temple, with Haddad circumventing various monitors, dodging guards, and then boarding the ship through a supposedly one-way waste umbilical, was very educational. At least after I got cleaned up I appreciated the educational aspects.

BECAUSE THEY LOOK SO SURPRISED TO BE EATEN UP! guffawed the giant. PRINCESSES ALWAYS EXPECTS TO GET RESCUED. Do they? asked Anya mildly. Better they should rescue themselves.

All things a wizard makes are flawed in some way. A Good Wizard, like myself, will do this intentionally. A Bad Wizard's works will have some accidental flaw, derived from their nature. All our work has some weakness. But why? To limit the object's power, said the Good Wizard softly. Power is always best limited.