Abhorsen Quotes

#1. Prepare a crossing party," snapped Horyse. "A single person to cross. Miss Abhorsen, here. And Sergeant, if you or Private Rahise so much as talk in your sleep about what you may have heard here, then you'll be on gravedigging fatigues for the rest of your lives!

Garth Nix

#2. She was no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. She was the Abhorsen-in-Waiting.

Garth Nix

#3. This is what it is, to be an Abhorsen.

Garth Nix

#4. I am Abhorsen ... "
He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel

Garth Nix

#5. 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.

Garth Nix

#6. The Clayr saw me, the Wallmaker made me, the King quenched me, the Abhorsen wields me so that no Dead shall walk in Life. For this is not their path.

Garth Nix

#7. 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!

Garth Nix

#8. Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

Joseph Heller

#9. The Dog was a different matter. She was new, or so old that any book that told of her was long since dust. The creature in the fog thought the latter.

Garth Nix

#10. I mostly read suspense novels, but I do occasionally read spiritual stuff.

Jai Uttal

#11. Being a role model, you just got to watch what you do.

Kel Mitchell

#12. But as it turns out, love doesn't set us free - love keeps standing outside the jail on an endless candlelight vigil. So love? Yes, love was pain as well. Especially love.

Adrian Barnes

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

Garth Nix

#14. Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

George Santayana

#15. Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

Noam Chomsky

#16. Oh, I get a little tired now and then, but knowing my lifestyle, that's only natural.

Harry Caray

#17. I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed.

Carolina Kostner

#18. When I get married, I'm gonna register at Bank of America.

Chelsea Handler

#19. Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#20. Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.

Benjamin Graham

#21. The Bible, of course, for aside from religion there is much to be learned of men and their ways in the Bible. It is also a source of comments made of references and figures of speech. No man could consider himself educated without some knowledge of it.

Louis L'Amour

#22. Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours, declared the Major.

Garth Nix

#23. Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

John Corbett