Top 100 The Nix Quotes
#1. I am very conscious on a daily basis of how extraordinarily blessed I am to get to do what I do and work with the people that I work with, so I make a practice of being grateful.
Matt Nix
#2. You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love ... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it."
"When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?
Cassandra Clare
#3. I am Abhorsen ... "
He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel
Garth Nix
#4. In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.
Garth Nix
#5. Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
Garth Nix
#6. The most important questions - "What are you? Where did you come from?" - had a whole range of answers, starting with "I'm the Disreputable Dog" and "from elsewhere" and occasionally becoming as eloquent as "I'm your Dog" and "You tell me - it was your spell.
Garth Nix
#7. Because one thing she's learned through all this is that if a new beginning is really new; it will feel like a crisis. Any real change should make you feel, at first, afraid;
Nathan Hill
#8. Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.
Garth Nix
#9. Coils within coils," murmured the cat. "Fleas upon fleas, idiots begetting idiots - "
"What?"
"Mmm, just thinking," whispered Mogget. "You should try it sometimes.
Garth Nix
#10. She was no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. She was the Abhorsen-in-Waiting.
Garth Nix
#11. The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest?
William E. Nix
#12. Arthur sighed and barely managed to whisper, Key ... hold the Hour Hand for ... a minute ... a minute ...
Garth Nix
#13. Is it a lack of faith to be thinking that we're all going to be slain or captured and sunk into the Hot Lake?" asked one of the four chosen archers.
"Yes," snapped the Carp.
Garth Nix
#14. I lied," said the Dog cheerily. "That's one of the reasons I'm the Disreputable Dog. Besides,
Garth Nix
#15. Time plays tricks between here and home, said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
Garth Nix
#16. 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
#17. You mortals arose from the possibility she made and, though she always liked to think so, are consequently not of her direct design.
Garth Nix
#18. The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.
Garth Nix
#19. I wish I had adventures like you do," Leaf said as she traced her finger over the writing on the invitation.
"They didn't feel like adventures," said Arthur.
Garth Nix
#20. Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing - and finishing - a novel is a great thing in itself, whether or not the book is published, or becomes widely-read or not.
Garth Nix
#21. Mrs Nix smacks herself in the head again. If she keeps that up she'll bruise
Carrie Jones
#22. Stop! By the Keys I hold, I order the Nothing to stop! House, you must hold against the Void!
Garth Nix
#23. 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
#24. They had an instictive ability to love, so that when they encountered each other, they fitted together in a way that made the two of them more than each could ever be on their own
Garth Nix
#25. Conor had volunteered to carry it, perhaps hoping it would make the others think better of him. Rollan
Garth Nix
#26. Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.
Garth Nix
#27. As it 'appens, I am Arthur's right-hand man," said Suzy. "Or left-hand girl, I can't remember where I stood last time. Anyhow, me and Arthur is like two fingers of a gauntlet. Or at least the thumb and the little finger. I mean, I'm his top General, and all. So if I say you're in, you're in.
Garth Nix
#28. [Lunch] was composed of one of the fish she had caught, evidently rescued from Mogget. This had been grilled with ginger, pepper, and some spice she didn't know, set atop a salad of grains and greenleaf, accompanied by a lightly sparkling clear wine she had to admit was delicious and refreshing.
Garth Nix
#29. I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
Garth Nix
#30. I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.
Garth Nix
#31. I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.'
Garth Nix
#32. Sixth comes Saraneth, also known as the Binder. Saraneth speaks with the deep voice of power, shackling the Dead to the wielder's will.
Garth Nix
#33. Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.
Garth Nix
#34. Yep, said Arthur. Somehow yep seemed the most positive thing he could say. Stronger than yeah and more heroic than yes. He hoped he could live up to it.
Garth Nix
#36. I won't let you go! I love you, Dog!'
'There will be other dogs and friends, and loves' whispered the Dog. 'You have found your family, your heritage, and you have earned a high place in the world. I love you too, but my time with you has passed.
Garth Nix
#37. 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
#39. 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.
Garth Nix
#40. For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.
Garth Nix
#41. Why did the stories I knew best never end well?
But why too did I feel at home among them?
I could never give up the myths, the maps, the ship that had shaped me.
Blake's home might be paradise, but my home was the Temptation.
Heidi Heilig
#42. But even if the captain rewrites his own history, how could it affect your reality? I'm from a place you call a fairy tale, and I'm still here."
"But . . . the Vaadi Al-Maas was real once. People believed in it."
"I believe in you. Simple enough, right?" His smile was heartbreaking.
Heidi Heilig
#43. Bad form, Regin! Wrong car."
Immediately after, the house shook again. "Oh, much better!" Nix assured them. "That was Bowen's!
Kresley Cole
#44. I never knew you had such a fine eye for fabrics," I said as we continued up the street. "You should have been a tailor instead of a thief."
"I have a fine eye for all things, amira, which is why I'm a thief and not a tailor.
Heidi Heilig
#45. There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.
Garth Nix
#46. 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
#47. It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other parts of the House, but we have Nothing well in hand here. I understand Nothing as no one else does!
- Grim Tuesday
Garth Nix
#48. I certainly have had experiences of a sense of wonder at the world and a feeling that even though it could all be explained rationally, it still feels that there is more to it.
Garth Nix
#49. Garth on making his stories feel real "Things like armour, clothes and other small details are very important in building up the reality of the story... I do spend quite a lot of time on things like clothing, armour, weapons and try and make them feel real.
Garth Nix
#50. The hour we spent sneaking through the temple, with Haddad circumventing various monitors, dodging guards, and then boarding the ship through a supposedly one-way waste umbilical, was very educational. At least after I got cleaned up I appreciated the educational aspects.
Garth Nix
#51. The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is.
Matt Nix
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
Garth Nix
#57. 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
#58. It's no secret that most memoirs are really self-help books in disguise.
Nathan Hill
#59. They mistrust you because they think you'll be the death of me," Roark said softly. "Tell me, Nix. Will you?
Jae T. Jaggart
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Unhand my tail!" squealed the Will.
Garth Nix
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours, declared the Major.
Garth Nix
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.
Garth Nix
#74. Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
Garth Nix
#76. 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
#77. So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?
Garth Nix
#78. Should have told you . . . betrayed . . . the Bile . . .
Garth Nix
#79. Every Clayr is given the gift to See some portent of her death, though not the death itself, for no human could bear that weight. Almost twenty years ago I Saw myself and your little dog, and in time I realized that this was the vision that foretold my final days.
Garth Nix
#80. 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
#81. And I've never been wicked,' said the Witch firmly. 'Least, not by my measure. Just independant-minded.'
'Wickedness depends on where you're standing, doesn't it?' said Jenny.
Garth Nix
#82. 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
#83. Don't look, part of his mind said. If you don't see trouble, it doesn't exist.
But it does, thought Arthur, fighting down the fear. Keep breathing slowly. You have to confront your fears. Deal with them.
Garth Nix
#84. Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.
Matt Nix
#85. There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books.
Garth Nix
#86. Five Great Charters knit the land
Together linked, hand in hand
One in the people who wear the crown
Two in the folk who keep the Dead down
Three and Five became stone and mortar
Four sees all in frozen water.
Garth Nix
#87. 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?
Garth Nix
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble ...
Garth Nix
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?
Garth Nix
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. a trauma that breaks you into brand new pieces.
Nathan Hill
#99. Nix: We're not leaving without her. So unless you want permanent houseguests of the destructive sort, just hand her over.
Kresley Cole
#100. What do you mean? I am Mogget, of course. The one and only Mogget. Though I have had other names.
Garth Nix
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