"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..."
- Garth Nix
"My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh..."
"When the dead do walk seek water's run,for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest laketo ward the dead and have and make.If water fails thee, fire's thy friend, if neither guar..."
"Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was."
"Time and death sleep side by side."
"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."
"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."
"Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator."
"The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures."
"Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride."