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Conor had volunteered to carry it, perhaps hoping it would make the others think better of him. Rollan

Both of them often turned to gaze at Sabriel.

May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

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

You mortals arose from the possibility she made and, though she always liked to think so, are consequently not of her direct design.

What do you mean? I am Mogget, of course. The one and only Mogget. Though I have had other names.

Everything is always better for a walk.

Stop! By the Keys I hold, I order the Nothing to stop! House, you must hold against the Void!

Might have been and could have done, neither worth thinking on.

In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

Are you . . . are you the athask? The great one?" "Maybe," said Mogget. "I can't remember." "Mogget,

I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh ...

Cats never liked to admit to names. Being named might lead to being held responsible for something.

Unhand my tail!" squealed the Will.

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.

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

Midnight Visitors,' whispered Suzy fearfully. 'With nightmare-whips and night-gloves.

All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go.

It is always important to look beyond a pleasant visage.

Luxuriate in a constant flow of information, picking out whatever I wanted to know.

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.

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.

Should have told you . . . betrayed . . . the Bile . . .

Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.

A hundred hundred heartbeats ... whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.

What's too late?" asked Mogget. "Hold

A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

Time and death sleep side by side.

What Great Beast will have their solitude pierced by your grasping little voices?

Devoid of life, it was also devoid of the Dead.

I am not afraid," he said to himself.

If she had been in a pointing competition, she would have lost points.

I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed.

she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well. "We

Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.

Time plays tricks between here and home, said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

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.

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

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.

Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble ...

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.

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

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.

Arthur sighed and barely managed to whisper, Key ... hold the Hour Hand for ... a minute ... a minute ...

One thing I did learn early on was not to put all my trust in magic. If it can be done without magic, it's better done without magic.

I don't particularly want to meet anyone. I'm quite happy by myself. Or at least, I was, back home.

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

Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?

Bee stings are very educational

But we survived, didn't we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it's a tragedy.

My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh ...

Lirael left in a daze of happiness. She had survived the ordeal. She had been accepted. She was going to be a librarian!

Alternatives! Probabilities!

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

I lied," said the Dog cheerily. "That's one of the reasons I'm the Disreputable Dog. Besides,

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

As per usual, trouble comes in several directions at once.

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

Believe in Lord Arthur. Believe in your Carp. We shall prevail.

It's you I'm concerned about. You are letting your fear come between you and getting better.

I hope you find some stories here that you will enjoy, or wonder about, or that linger uncomfortably in the mind when you wish they didn't.

You have to know where you are to know where to go.

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

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.

Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.

I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.

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.

Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.

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

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Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

We're really going to ride rhinos?" asked Conor excitedly.

A passion thwarted will often go astray.

It's always better to be doing.

...I don't expect to need rescuing. I'm not that kind of princess.

Sixth comes Saraneth, also known as the Binder. Saraneth speaks with the deep voice of power, shackling the Dead to the wielder's will.

Oh, fierce librarians, then? Tell you to shush and that sort of thing?

This is what it is, to be an Abhorsen.

Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it.

As if they were crazed stoats that had to be got rid of before they killed again.

Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens.

Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.

Waiting feeds fear. Courage comes with deeds.

You'd better take over here as temporary Mistress, Joan, he said to Professor Aiken.

There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.