Quotes About Abhorsen

Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the bells. But on to more serious matters. Could you please rescue us? Prince Sameth's personal vessel is not quite what I'm used to, and he is eager to catch me a fish before my morning nap.

I am Abhorsen... He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, Father of Sabriel

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.

Millennia of servitude, Abhorsen. Chained by trickery, treachery... captivenin a repulsive, fixed-flesh shape...but there will be payment, slow payment —not quick, not quick at all!

She looked competent, professional, a traveller who could look after herself. At the same time, she looked less like someone called Sabriel and more like the Abhorsen, capital letter and all.

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

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

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