229 Quotes by Garth Nix

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

Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?

I love you too, but my time with you has passed.

It was like someone far away calling someone else’s name.

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

Might have been and could have done, neither worth thinking on,' said Huire, repeating one of their mother's favourite sayings.pg 110

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?

*A kiss," said Mogget sleepy. "Accualy a breath might do. But you eventualy have to start kissing someone sometimes, I suppose.

Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love.