Midnight Visitors,’ whispered Suzy fearfully. ‘With nightmare-whips and night-gloves.
Madness is unfortunately not incompatible with government
I am Abhorsen...He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, Father of Sabriel
How come it’s all right for the bad guys to do whatever they want, and whenever I want to do something it’s ‘forget about it’?
Garth on where Sabriel came from Sabriel grew very much out of the story... Sometimes people ask me, 'Why did you write a strong young woman character?' I just thought she was more interesting than if...
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 cl...
Conor had volunteered to carry it, perhaps hoping it would make the others think better of him. Rollan
Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.
Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing, said the DogWhat does that mean?I have no idea, said the Dog
A passion thwarted will often go astray.
Continue to love each other, something I discover is not an automatic state but must be worked at, like an ever-changing tactical problem, though I would never describe it that way to my beloved
I've been thinking that it's as if my ancestors are saying it's all right to make things. That's what I'm meant to do. Make things, and help the Abhorsen and the King. So I'll do that, and I'll do my...
So, you're the small troublemaker who foiled Saturday's Cocigrue, said Lady Friday. Leaf, a friend of the so-called Rightful Heir , this Arthur Penhaligon. How kind of you to visit.
Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?
What Great Beast will have their solitude pierced by your grasping little voices?
This? It's a feather-coin. I made it.''What is it for?''It isn't for anything. It's a toy.''It's for annoying people,' said Mogget from Sam's pack. 'If you don't put it away, I shall eat it.
There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.
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 ab...
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...