Garth Nix Quotes

• 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.

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  Believe, Honor, Action

  Garth Nix (2008). “Superior Saturday”, p.235, Scholastic Inc.

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

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  Luz, Oscuridad, A Veces

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #1: Mister Monday”, p.202, Scholastic Inc.

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

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  Strong, Fear, Stupid

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• 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.

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  Work Out, Feelings, Trying

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• 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.

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  Vida, Pensamiento, Sentimientos

  Garth Nix (2014). “Clariel”, p.20, Hot Key Books

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• People often presume I'm from whatever country they're from. So Americans presume I'm American and the British presume I'm British. And they're surprised to discover I actually am Australian. And actually some Australians are surprised too.

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  Country, People, British

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• I don't do all the background and the worldbuilding before I start the story. What I do is I work out the bare minimum I need to start the story, and often that really is a bare minimum - it's a character in a situation, and I know nothing about the character, I know nothing about the situation, and then I think about it for a long time, and make notes about where I think the story is going to go and so on, but I don't really make notes to do with the background or the magic system or the world.

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  Character, Thinking, Work Out

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

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  Begging, Beggar, Ifs

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.232, Hot Key Books

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

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  Destiny, Doe, Path

  Garth Nix (2014). “Clariel”, p.219, Hot Key Books

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• 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.

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  Girl, Thinking, Library

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.38, Hot Key Books

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• I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.

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  Love, Love You, Mind

  Garth Nix (2014). “Sabriel”, p.185, Hot Key Books

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• 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.

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  Hands, Land, Two

  Garth Nix (2014). “Sabriel”, p.125, Hot Key Books

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• 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.

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  Writing, Going Away, Library

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.300, Hot Key Books

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• For everyone and everything, 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.

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  Stars, Looks, Delay

  Garth Nix (2014). “Abhorsen”, p.194, Hot Key Books

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• Unhand my tail!" squealed the Will.

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  Colas

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #2: Grim Tuesday”, p.257, Scholastic Inc.

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

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  Adventure, Tragedy, Ifs

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #3: Drowned Wednesday”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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

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  Lost, I Can, Mogget

  Garth Nix (2014). “The Old Kingdom Collection: Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel”, p.80, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Dark, Moon, Light

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

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  Be Careful, Careful, Left

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• El conocimiento, como todas las cosas, es mejor con moderación", entonó el testamento. "Saberlo todo significa que no necesitas pensar, y eso es muy peligroso.

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  Mean, Thinking, Knowing Everything

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #5: Lady Friday”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

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• Time and death sleep side by side.

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  Sleep, Sides

  Garth Nix (2014). “Abhorsen”, p.36, Hot Key Books

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• I enjoyed the army reserve, and I learned a lot from it, but I also... it helped me work out that I didn't want to live in that kind of closed environment.

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  Army, Work Out, Want

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

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  Believe, Enough, Wells

  Garth Nix (2009). “Abhorsen”, p.23, Zondervan

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• Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the last five seconds they ever would have alone together. I am not afraid, he said to himself. "I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.

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  Love You, Mind, Say Anything

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• 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?

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  Taken, Majority, Minorities

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