Garth Nix Short Quotes

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Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.

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

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I think I might love you too, Charter help me, but now is-

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

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

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All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go.

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The Clayr Saw a sword and so I was. Remember the Wallmakers. Remember Me.

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Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major.

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Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble...

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"Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog.

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"Oh, to be a minion," muttered Giac to himself dreamily. "I was a sub-minion."

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A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.

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"Time and death sleep side by side," said the Dog. "Both are in Astrael's Domain."

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Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.

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Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

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A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.

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But we survived, didn't we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it's a tragedy.

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Wake me when what terrible thing is going to happen, happens, or if it appears I might get wet.

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I am the Disreputable Dog. Or Disreputable Bitch, if you want to get technical. When are we going for a walk?

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I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

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Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

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For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

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There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.

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I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh...

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Flotsam floats when all is sunk.
Jetsam thrown isn't just junk.
Coughs and colds and bright red sores
Waiting for us, so bend yer oars!

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"You are a weak reed, Recruit Green!" Helve shouted. "Weak reeds make for badly woven baskets! This platoon will not be a badly woven basket!"

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Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.

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"You're sure that we'll find someone suitable here?"
"Sure as eggs is eggs," replied Sneezer. "Surer even, eggs not always being what one might expect."

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"I don't... I don't care," he said softly to his reflection. "I have a job to do. It doesn't matter what I have become. It doesn't matter what I look like."

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If you like what you are writing, just write. Try to keep going before you stop to take a break. Keep going back before too much time has passed. And just stay with it.

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