229 Quotes by Garth Nix

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!

If she had been in a pointing competition, she would have lost points.

Both of them often turned to gaze at Sabriel.

Conor had volunteered to carry it, perhaps hoping it would make the others think better of him. Rollan.

I will not give up. It is the right thing to do, no matter the consequences.

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

Midnight Visitors,’ whispered Suzy fearfully. ‘With nightmare-whips and night-gloves.

There was John Masefield’s The Box of Delights; and the C. S. Lewis Narnia books; and Patricia Lynch’s The Turf-Cutter’s Donkey; The Winter of Enchantment by Victoria Walker; Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken; several of Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novels, including Susan’s favorite, The Silver Branch; Power of Three by Diana Wynne Jones; The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner; Five Children and It by E. Nesbit; and many others.

Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I’m doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.