Abhorsen Garth Quotes & Sayings

The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to. — Sparky Anderson

Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once women made it public that they could do things better than men, they were, of course, forced to do them. — P. J. O'Rourke

I am Abhorsen ... "
He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel — Garth Nix

At some level you remain an orphan for life; looking after children is one way of looking after yourself. — Ian McEwan

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it. — Simon Pegg

Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the bells. But on to more serious matters. Could you please rescue us? Prince Sameth's personal vessel is not quite what I'm used to, and he is eager to catch me a fish before my morning nap. — Garth Nix

It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness. — Tove Jansson

Millennia of servitude, Abhorsen. Chained by trickery, treachery ... captivenin a repulsive, fixed-flesh shape ... but there will be payment, slow payment - not quick, not quick at all! — Garth Nix

Conversation fertilizes our understanding and that is why customers are demanding that businesses converse with them rather than talk down to them. — J. N. HALM

Take away the dispensation of the Spirit, and his effectual operations in all the intercourse that is between God and man; be ashamed to avow or profess the work attributed unto him in the gospel, -- and Christianity is plucked up by the roots. — John Owen

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. — Garth Nix

I often thought the most unfair thing about having Moebius wasn't Moebius at all, but other people's inability to define me by anything else. — David Arnold

Wishing is a goal without energy behind it. — Robert Anthony

The mind is the treasury for knowledge, but the heart is the treasury for love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

She was no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. She was the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. — Garth Nix

I love challenging myself, doing different things and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before. That's what I love about acting, and that's what I love about film. — Taylor Lautner

In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England. — Niall Ferguson

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. — Garth Nix

Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours, declared the Major. — Garth Nix

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies — Joy Harjo

This is what it is, to be an Abhorsen. — Garth Nix

Prepare a crossing party," snapped Horyse. "A single person to cross. Miss Abhorsen, here. And Sergeant, if you or Private Rahise so much as talk in your sleep about what you may have heard here, then you'll be on gravedigging fatigues for the rest of your lives! — Garth Nix

The Dog was a different matter. She was new, or so old that any book that told of her was long since dust. The creature in the fog thought the latter. — Garth Nix

I can see time, whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost. — Garth Nix

Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become. — Margaret Atwood

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other. — Esa-Pekka Salonen