Quotes About Lirael

#1. I wonder what it feels like to be a woman whose Christmas present must be bought in cash. Liberating.

Gillian Flynn

#2. 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

#3. It's always better to be doing.

Garth Nix

#4. There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.

Samuel Beckett

#5. 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

#6. Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait ... artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.

Hank Stuever

#7. Tranquillity is courage in repose.

Inazo Nitobe

#8. 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

#9. Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

Madeleine L'Engle

#10. We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

Georges Braque

#11. Please," said Lirael ... "I think I would like to work in this Library."
"The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.

Garth Nix

#12. When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises.

Sherrod Brown

#13. It's dishonourable to stay stupider than you need to be

Charlie Munger

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

Garth Nix

#15. Make your Family proud and Don't forget those who helped you get there.

Saziso Lucas

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

Garth Nix

#17. Give me your details, and from an armchair I will return you an excellent expert opinion.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#18. In the end maybe the brave ones are also the foolish ones. Maybe only fools are ever truly brave.

Mikaela Everett

#19. Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.

Dannel Malloy

#20. 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

#21. A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.

George F. Kennan

#22. I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

Margot Robbie

#23. You never know how much can you do in your life.

Jack Ma

#24. Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.

Garth Nix

#25. Just invest in apps. Just download apps and then pay yourself the dividend.

Carrie Brownstein