Garth Nix - Sabriel (1995)

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

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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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"I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen..."
He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel."

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Five Great Charters knit the land
together linked hand and 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.

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

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

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A Kiss," said Mogget sleepily. "Actually, just a breath would do. But you have to start kissing someone sometime, I suppose." "A breath?" she asked. She didn't want to kiss just any wooden man. He looked nice enough, but he might not be like his looks. A kiss seemed too forward.

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

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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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