Abhorsen Sabriel Quotes & Sayings

I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes,
or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments
of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve
my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before
this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference
descends. — Virginia Woolf

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

Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel. — Corrie Ten Boom

It takes great generosity to accept generosity. — Merle Shain

Everyone comes here for pleasure. Even if they think they don't. Embracing it is harder for some and they go mad before they truly accept it. Most of the places they cme from are founded on guilt and rules. The Ripers want us to break away from that - some wish to tear it from us while others are more subtle. — Marianne De Pierres

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

When I'm having a really rough day, I take it out in the gym. It releases so many endorphins in your body. — Wendy Raquel Robinson

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty. — Narendra Modi

You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country. — Richard Cobden

If something or someone doesn't work, it's in a state of grace, progress, and evolution. It will attract love and empathy. If it does work, it has merely completed its job and is probably dead. — Andrew Solomon

When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness. — Will Forte

To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives. — Nhat Hanh

Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them. — John Ortberg