You’d better take over here as temporary Mistress, Joan, he said to Professor Aiken.
Lirael almost apologized, but she held it back. She did feel sorry for Nick. It wasn’t his fault he had been chosen by an ancient spirit of evil to be its avatar. She even felt sort of maternal to him...
Knowledge is always useful, even if...if it is not immediately apparent how it will be useful.
I have walked in Death to the very precipice of the Ninth Gate, Abhorsen said quietly. I know the secrets and horrors of the Nine Precincts. I do not know what lies beyond, but everything that lives m...
I feel that you will be a maker, not a seer. You must promise me that it will be so. Promise me that you will not give in. Promise me that you will never give up hope.
I don't want to be kind of sorcerer, said Anya swiftly. Besides, you wouldn't...you wouldn't love me then, would you?We will always love you, said Tanitha. But you would not know that if you become l...
Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?’ Sabriel quoted, the words, redolent with echoes of Charter Magic, twining around her tongue like some lingering spice.
As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I'll feed you to the cat thing here. Understand?Yum, said Mogget.Yes, sir! mumbled the telephone operator, his hands shaking as he tried t...
Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.
You mortals arose from the possibility she made and, though she always liked to think so, are consequently not of her direct design.
What's wrong with this city!Like I said, no one's really in charge. Mayor and council are afraid to do anything in case the sorcerers don't like it. So they don't do anything. should do something, Any...
Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.
Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.
Music is a great balm. Another thing evil sorcerers give up. They cannot abide music, for it can conjure all human emotions, most particularly joy and happiness.
Mogget’s voice. Sam whirled around. Mogget? Is that you? Where are you? Here, and regretting it as per usual, replied Mogget, and a small white cat sauntered out from behind a fern tree.
If she had been in a pointing competition, she would have lost points.
If I'm not back by nightfall, come and take a very careful look, said Anya. But I don't expect to need rescuing. I'm not that kind of princess.What kind of princess are you?Not the kind that needs res...
I suppose you could call me...Soot, said the thing. Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name.Eaten it? asked Suzy. Why eat soot?Boredom, said Soo...
Five Great Charters knit the landTogether linked, hand in handOne in the people who wear the crownTwo in the folk who keep the Dead downThree and Five became stone and mortarFour sees all in frozen wa...
All things a wizard makes are flawed in some way. A Good Wizard, like myself, will do this intentionally. A Bad Wizard's works will have some accidental flaw, derived from their nature. All our work h...