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8339e96
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Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
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questioning
path
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Garth Nix |
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784100d
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Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the last five seconds they ever would have alone together. I am not afraid, he said to himself. "I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind."
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sabriel
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Garth Nix |
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f58c689
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My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh..."
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humor
parents
paranoia
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Garth Nix |
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3e807fb
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Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.
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identity
fantasy
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Garth Nix |
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f49bbc3
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Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.
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Garth Nix |
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79f61eb
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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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Garth Nix |
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3d28bb3
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Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.
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inspirational
ignorance
pride
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Garth Nix |
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11a98da
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Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.
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Garth Nix |
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7da8f7d
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Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.
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Garth Nix |
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fd1187e
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Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?
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Garth Nix |
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7e89d67
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Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous."
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think
knowledge
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Garth Nix |
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00010ee
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I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind."
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sabriel
garth-nix
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Garth Nix |
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822f124
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Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter."
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Garth Nix |
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599af7f
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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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lirael
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Garth Nix |
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55debcd
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Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.
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wish
mystery
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Garth Nix |
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b17bf60
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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 to smother the burning wreckage of his switchboard with a fire blanket."
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humor
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Garth Nix |
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b856130
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Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog "What does that mean?" "I have no idea," said the Dog"
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Garth Nix |
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3db1592
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A Kiss," said Mogget sleepily. "Actually, just a breath would do. But you have to start kissing someone sometime, I suppose." "A breath?" she asked. She didn't want to kiss just any wooden man. He looked nice enough, but he might not be like his looks. A kiss seemed too forward."
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Garth Nix |
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139038d
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Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens.
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Garth Nix |
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3278c7d
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Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.
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Garth Nix |
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3313a31
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If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last."
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unwanted-attention
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Garth Nix |
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589a13c
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I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost."
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young-adult
fantasy
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Garth Nix |
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8be9df9
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Time and death sleep side by side.
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time
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Garth Nix |
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b0cabe2
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The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.
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fear
omen
fortune
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Garth Nix |
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1eb2ca8
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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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self-confidence
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Garth Nix |
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8952bb1
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Why, Yrael?" it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. "Why?" "Life," said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. "Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon."
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yrael
mogget
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Garth Nix |
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732e3bc
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Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one."
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disreputable-dog
sameth
lirael
smell
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Garth Nix |
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e12120e
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Ranna," she said aloud, touching the first, the smallest bell. Ranna the sleepbringer, the sweet, low sound that brought silence in its wake. "Mosrael." The second bell, a harsh, rowdy bell. Mosrael was the waker, the bell Sabriel should never use, the bell whose sound was a seesaw, throwing the ringer further into Death, as it brought the listener into Life. "Kibeth." Kibeth, the walker. A bell of several sounds, a difficult and contrary b..
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Garth Nix |
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fd37cac
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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.
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rescue
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Garth Nix |
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75c769a
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I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!
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love
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Garth Nix |
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64ec365
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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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Garth Nix |
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849bc5e
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There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.
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Garth Nix |
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50f3e39
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Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river."
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Garth Nix |
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7b4e67f
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Yep," said Arthur. Somehow seemed the most positive thing he could say. Stronger than and more heroic than . He hoped he could live up to it."
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Garth Nix |
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3c3998a
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I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.
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Garth Nix |
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181cd09
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It's always better to be doing.
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sameth
mogget
lirael
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Garth Nix |
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dcf51a6
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Sam picked up his pack, but before he could put it on, Mogget leaped onto it and slid under the top flap. All that could be seen of him were his green eyes and one white-furred ear. "Remember I advised against this way," he instructed. "Wake me when whatever terrible thing is a about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet." --
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yrael
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Garth Nix |
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1e92df4
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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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nick
tears
surprise
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Garth Nix |
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df85489
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A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face."
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Garth Nix |
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2a07ad3
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Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.
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identity
fantasy
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Garth Nix |
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fc322b5
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I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel"
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Garth Nix |
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f91c782
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Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator."
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time
humor
mogget
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Garth Nix |
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f2b9171
|
I'll sing you a song of the long ago - Seven shine the shiners, oh! What did the Seven do way back when? Why, they wove the Charter then! Five for the warp, from beginning to end. Two for the woof, to make and mend. That's Seven, but what of the Nine - What of the two who chose not to shine? The Eighth did hide, hide all away, But the Seven caught him and made him pay. The Ninth was strong and fought with might, But lone Orannis was put o..
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Garth Nix |
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10c41e9
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May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?
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Garth Nix |