My parents are going to kill me!””That seems rather harsh…
When the dead do walk seek water’s run,for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river’s best or broadest laketo ward the dead and have and make.If water fails thee, fire’s thy friend, if neither guards it will be thy end.
Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.
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.
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.
Time plays tricks between here and home,” said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.
Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.
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.
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.
Maybe if I act well enough, I’ll come to believe it myself.
I can see time,” whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.
Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
It was like someone far away calling someone else’s name.
I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn’t mean I have to use it!
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?
Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it. There’s plenty I’m afraid of. Just not vampires.”We fear the unknown,’ she said. ‘You must know a lot about vampires.
So I’ll do that, and I’ll do my best and if my best isn’t good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don’t have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.
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.
Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it.
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.
Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill – or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
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 very forward. He might remember it, and make assumptions.
Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn’t surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.
There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.