Garth Nix quotes

All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go. (Garth Nix)
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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Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.
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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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Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble...
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Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.
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Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
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I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.
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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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Time and death sleep side by side.
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Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens. (Garth Nix)
When the dead do walk seek water's run, for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest lake to ward the dead and have and make. If water fails thee, fire's thy friend, if neither guards it will be thy end.
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So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?
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Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.
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No mother, no father, no Sight.
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Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.
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Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.
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"Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog.
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A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.
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So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.
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He was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a necromancer's bells! Apart from that, he was quite handsome, which was another black mark as far as she was concerned. (Garth Nix)
It's always better to be doing.
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Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.
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My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh.
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"You mean he's dead too?" asked Suzy. "Yes," said Dusk. "This morning, in his cell. The guards outside were also slain, and only Sir Thursday's boots remained." "Sounds more like he escaped," Suzy said. "His feet were still in the boots," said Dusk.
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