Garth Nix Quotes

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker? - View Quote Details on Does the walker choose the path, or the path the…
The Trackers were on the move again, spreading out to search. It sounded like a trio on each side of the train, coming toward him.
Gold-Eye pictured them in his head, trying to get his Change Vision to show him exactly where they were.
But the Change Vision came and went when it chose, and couldn’t be controlled. - View Quote Details on The Trackers were on the move again, spreading out to…
Gold-Eye’s Change Vision suddenly gripped him, showing him a picture of the unpleasantly close future, the soon-to-be-now.
Doors slid open at each end of the carriage, forced apart by metal-gauntleted hands four times the size of Gold-Eye’s own. Fog no longer fell in lazy swirls, but danced and spiraled crazily as huge shapes lumbered in, moving to the pile of blankets….
Gold-Eye didn’t wait to see more. He came out of the vision and took the escape route he’d planned months before, when he’d first found the carriage. Lifting a trapdoor in the floor, he dropped down, down to the cold steel rails. - View Quote Details on Gold-Eye’s Change Vision suddenly gripped him, showing him a picture…
Teachers are very undervalued for what they do. - View Quote Details on Teachers are very undervalued for what they do.
If you like what you are writing, just write. Try to keep going before you stop to take a break. Keep going back before too much time has passed. And just stay with it. - View Quote Details on If you like what you are writing, just write. Try…
The Clayr Saw, 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 - View Quote Details on The Clayr Saw, the Wallmaker made me, the King quenched…
I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen…father of Sabriel - View Quote Details on I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort,…
A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don’t feel young any more. - View Quote Details on A year ago, I turned the final page of The…
For everything and everyone there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate. - View Quote Details on For everything and everyone there is a time to die…
Five great Charters knit the land.
Together linked hand and 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. - View Quote Details on Five great Charters knit the land.
Together linked hand and hand.
One…
I don’t believe authors need to keep any specific values or ideas in mind while they are writing for children, but I do think authors need to be aware of their audience, and of the effect their work may have. So if they want to address particularly sensitive topics or taboos, they have to do so consciously and carefully. This is very different to toeing a particular moral line or leaving things out.
Certainly I don’t think good always has to triumph over evil; it depends on the story and the aims of the book. For example, I could envisage telling a story where the inaction of people leads to the triumph of evil. But I would include the hope that this would lead to the people involved doing better next time. Is that story then really about the triumph of evil, or is it about the awakening of opposition to evil? - View Quote Details on I don’t believe authors need to keep any specific values…
So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt 10,000 years ago on the off chance that you would show up, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack? - View Quote Details on So are you saying that somebody went to all the…
Soon the Myrmidons would surround him, silver nets shooting out to catch him in their sticky tracery. Then a Winger would come to take him away. Back to the Dorms. Or if he was old enough… straight to the Meat Factory. - View Quote Details on Soon the Myrmidons would surround him, silver nets shooting out…
The Clayr Saw a sword and so I was.
Remember the Wallmakers. Remember me. - View Quote Details on The Clayr Saw a sword and so I was.
Remember the…
“I once was many things, but now I am only several”‘ ~ Mogget - View Quote Details on “I once was many things, but now I am only…
No mother, no father, no Sight. - View Quote Details on No mother, no father, no Sight.
“Wake me when whatever terrible thing is about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet.”‘ ~ Mogget - View Quote Details on “Wake me when whatever terrible thing is about to happen…
“Choosers will be beggars if the begging’s not their choosing” Disreputable Dog - View Quote Details on “Choosers will be beggars if the begging’s not their choosing”…