Top 100 Nix Quotes
#1. Nix," I said, and her name was a poem. She tilted her face up to the dawn; my lips met hers. She pressed close to me, and then there was no past, no future - only now. No her, no me. Only us.
Heidi Heilig
#4. You liked watching Lucrezia and her consort," Roark observed, ignoring his comment and switching the subject, taking Nix's earlobe between his white teeth and nipping it, hard. He licked at the blood. "The cruel face of their love. It turned you on. Hard.
Jae T. Jaggart
#5. They mistrust you because they think you'll be the death of me," Roark said softly. "Tell me, Nix. Will you?
Jae T. Jaggart
#6. How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.
Martin Luther
#7. That's got to be Nix," Benny said as he pulled the door open. "Hey, sweetie ... "
Morgie Mitchell and Lou Chong stood on the black porch.
"Um," said Chong, "hello to you, too, sugar lumps.
Jonathan Maberry
#8. Nix: We're not leaving without her. So unless you want permanent houseguests of the destructive sort, just hand her over.
Kresley Cole
#9. You two. You can do a cleaning spell."
One slurred, "But Nixie, I'm really pre-hung-over."
Nix's eyes went wide. "Do it, or the photos go live!"
The witch shook her fist to the sky, crying, "Damn you, Valkyrie! Damn you and your digital ways!
Kresley Cole
#10. Nixie, every party is an orgy waiting to happen."
Nix opened her mouth, then closed it, dragging Neomi and Mari away. "Well, you can't argue with reason, can you?
Kresley Cole
#11. Why give him a choice at all? You said yourself, we need everyone we can get. If this Nix guy is half of what you are, we can't afford to let him go."
The answer is so simple, and it cuts me to bone.
"Because no one ever gave me a choice.
Victoria Aveyard
#12. Mrs Nix smacks herself in the head again. If she keeps that up she'll bruise
Carrie Jones
#13. Phone service is back up and Devyn calls Issie, and then leaves to bring her over. Gram calls Mrs. Nix, the school secretary.
"She's a bear," Betty exclaims after she hangs up the phone. "I trust her."
I don't even blink.
Carrie Jones
#14. Old as carbon," Nix agreed. "And so powerful I'm working on my demigoddess badges.
Kresley Cole
#15. Nix and Emma: 'Looks like you just found a new talent.'
'Great. Why couldn't I be good at underwater origami or something?
Kresley Cole
#16. Bad form, Regin! Wrong car."
Immediately after, the house shook again. "Oh, much better!" Nix assured them. "That was Bowen's!
Kresley Cole
#17. Lilah stood above them, tall and beautiful, her white hair whipping in the fresh breeze, her clothes streaked with gore, her hazel eyes glowing with fire.
She turned slowly to Nix and in her ghostly whisper of a voice said, I hate boys.
Jonathan Maberry
#18. Dorothea: "What the fuck are you?"
Nix: "A man who wanted to be a God ... then changed his mind.
Clive Barker
#19. Wait!" Conrad said. "Did someone ... one of my enemies set this fire?"
Nix turned back with a grin. "Unless you'd pissed off some wirring-hungry nutrias, then I'm going with no.
Kresley Cole
#20. Nix to Regin: What about that nice leopard-shifter pack that wanted to date you? The benefits of a variety pack of males cannot be overstated.
Kresley Cole
#21. What is Aldous capable of?"
"Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything."
"Aldous Nix is two thousands years old?"
"So, I've heard. He doesn't invite me to his birthday parties.
Cassandra Clare
#22. Nix was so beautiful yet so damaged."
- Uilleam MacRieve ~
Kresley Cole
#23. Lothaire, I've met dirt younger than we
are." -Nix
Kresley Cole
#24. MacRieve: You can't drop a line like that without unpacking it.
Nix: Just did. You-Lame.
MacRieve: It's MacRieve!
Kresley Cole
#25. So what are you going to wear to the apocalypse? I'm thinking something sparkly and transfixing.-Nix
Kresley Cole
#26. He clenched Nix's shoulders. 'Why did you hesitate? I saw you hesitate!' He shook her until her head lolled, while she grinned and said, 'Wheeee!
Kresley Cole
#27. Keys to the Kingdom Mister Monday Garth Nix BOOK ONE
Garth Nix
#28. Not again, Nix. I'll give my life to keep you safe." He stepped into his bathroom, undressed, and turned on the cold water. "The next time we meet, I'll make you mine. That's a promise.
Lia Davis
#29. Are you calling about the ad?"
"Ad?"
"For the gently used Bentley for sale. It has zero miles!"
Well, that explained the backward driving.
Macrieve & Nix
Kresley Cole
#30. Want some help with help with that stick in your ass, love?"
"No. It's quite comfortable, thank you."
"It should be. It's been in there for years." Nix winked at Will. "I hope you'll forgive my wife. She's a bit antisocial."
"And water's a bit wet.
S.W. Vaughn
#31. "Nix, I know you're faking the static." She could picture her sister blowing into her fist directly at the receiver. The static abruptly stopped. "Why?"
"It seamed less rude than the alternative."
"What's that?"
Click.
Kresley Cole
#32. Do you remember that time Nix broke his dick?" Jesse asks, causing everyone to start laughing.
River Savage
#33. When I'm finally worn out, I lay there quietly, taking in the beauty that is this man.
My Nix.
Just as I am his Emily.
Sawyer Bennett
#34. People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good," she said. "They love each other because it's easy. Or because they're used to it. Or because they've given up. Or because they're scared. People can be a Nix for each other.
Nathan Hill
#35. A nix who kept changing her appearance was selling something she called moonshine
Elliott James
#36. Nix had told Emma before she'd left for Europe that on this trip she would 'do that which you were born to do.' Apparently, Emma was born to get kidnapped by a deranged Lykae. Her fate sucked.
Kresley Cole
#37. Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.
Garth Nix
#38. Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.
Garth Nix
#40. Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
Garth Nix
#41. Continue to love each other, something I discover is not an automatic state but must be worked at, like an ever-changing tactical problem, though I would never describe it that way to my beloved
Garth Nix
#42. Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.
Garth Nix
#43. Waiting feeds fear. Courage comes with deeds.
Garth Nix
#44. She fought back the tears in her eyes, because though she no longer felt she was one of the Clayr, she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well.
Garth Nix
#45. I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to things that seem inappropriate, or being happy in an apparently unhappy situation.
Matt Nix
#46. If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along ... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
Garth Nix
#47. You'd better take over here as temporary Mistress, Joan, he said to Professor Aiken.
Garth Nix
#48. Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?
Garth Nix
#49. Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.
Garth Nix
#50. I'm always looking for what's something that Bradley Whitford's character can say that is completely outrageous and completely wrong, but in a double-reverse way is actually totally right. I don't really like where there's a story and you lay a few jokes on top of it.
Matt Nix
#51. Why, Yrael?" it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. "Why?"
"Life," said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. "Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.
Garth Nix
#52. I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
Garth Nix
#53. Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours, declared the Major.
Garth Nix
#54. It's always better to be doing.
Garth Nix
#55. What Great Beast will have their solitude pierced by your grasping little voices?
Garth Nix
#56. They might refuse the evidence of their own eyes and continue blindly on over the ridge, driven by optimism and hope that finally they would find somewhere to call home.
Garth Nix
#57. A Kiss," said Mogget sleepily. "Actually, just a breath would do. But you have to start kissing someone sometime, I suppose."
"A breath?" she asked. She didn't want to kiss just any wooden man. He looked nice enough, but he might not be like his looks. A kiss seemed too forward.
Garth Nix
#58. I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
Garth Nix
#59. If she had been in a pointing competition, she would have lost points.
Garth Nix
#60. Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.
Garth Nix
#62. I don't really have parents. I have parasitic ancestors who refuse to die."
-Halcyon Smith (Hero is a Man)
Nix Whittaker
#63. The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is.
Matt Nix
#64. Unhand my tail!" squealed the Will.
Garth Nix
#65. He was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a necromancer's bells! Apart from that, he was quite handsome, which was another black mark as far as she was concerned.
Garth Nix
#66. When the dead do walk seek water's run,
for this the Dead will always shun.
Swift river's best or broadest lake
to ward the dead and have and make.
If water fails thee, fire's thy friend,
if neither guards it will be thy end.
Garth Nix
#67. Might have been and could have done, neither worth thinking on.
Garth Nix
#68. I suppose you could call me ... Soot," said the thing. "Yes ... Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name."
"Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?"
"Boredom," said Soot.
Garth Nix
#69. This? It's a feather-coin. I made it.'
'What is it for?'
'It isn't for anything. It's a toy.'
'It's for annoying people,' said Mogget from Sam's pack. 'If you don't put it away, I shall eat it.
Garth Nix
#70. Mogget's voice. Sam whirled around. "Mogget? Is that you? Where are you?" "Here, and regretting it as per usual," replied Mogget, and a small white cat sauntered out from behind a fern tree.
Garth Nix
#71. Midnight Visitors,' whispered Suzy fearfully. 'With nightmare-whips and night-gloves.
Garth Nix
#72. ...I don't expect to need rescuing. I'm not that kind of princess.
Garth Nix
#73. It's no secret that most memoirs are really self-help books in disguise.
Nathan Hill
#74. Do What You Love and You Will Love What You Do!
Neiman Nix
#75. But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.
Garth Nix
#76. Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
Garth Nix
#77. I'm not going," he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer and sharper, till he was holding a trident as long as he was tall ... "And anyone who tries to make me is going to suffer."
"Twice," added the voice under the table.
Garth Nix
#78. He is a monster, I said. Maybe I m a monster to pity him
Rosamund Hodge
#79. Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.
Garth Nix
#80. I'm fortunate to have had my own level of success. My joys in life are I've got three little kids, and I got to buy a house that I really like, and everyone should have that.
Matt Nix
#81. I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.
Matt Nix
#82. I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
Garth Nix
#83. I am not afraid," he said to himself.
Garth Nix
#84. What do you mean? I am Mogget, of course. The one and only Mogget. Though I have had other names.
Garth Nix
#85. What's too late?" asked Mogget. "Hold
Garth Nix
#86. a trauma that breaks you into brand new pieces.
Nathan Hill
#87. The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.
Garth Nix
#88. Lirael left in a daze of happiness. She had survived the ordeal. She had been accepted. She was going to be a librarian!
Garth Nix
#89. Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
Garth Nix
#92. May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?
Garth Nix
#93. 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
#94. Some were Charter Mages, and there would not be time to argue rights and wrongs, so any aggressive magic he used would be countered or negated by these others, as was the nature of Charter Magic.
Garth Nix
#95. There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.
Garth Nix
#96. I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.
Matt Nix
#97. Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble ...
Garth Nix
#98. Time and death sleep side by side.
Garth Nix
#99. With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
Garth Nix
#100. I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these kid-friendly articulate sociopaths who are usually yelling at the children for their own benefit.
Matt Nix
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