229 Quotes by Garth Nix

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.

Madness is unfortunately not incompatible with government.

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.

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

I don’t have a lot of valuables on me at the moment though... and I need the ones I have for my Quest. Could you perhaps agree to rob me later? – Anya.

Please, Mogget,” whispered Lirael, too soft to be heard by anyone at all. But the white shape did hear. It stopped and turned inwards, to face Orannis, changing from a pillar of fire to a more human shape, but one with skin as bright as a burning star. “I am Yrael,” it said, casting a hand out to throw a line of silver fire into the breaking spell-ring, its voice crackling with force. “I also stand against you.

But the Dog was gone forever. Lirael.

It is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

You’d better take over here as temporary Mistress, Joan,” he said to Professor Aiken.