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The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.
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Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
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old-one
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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.
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responsibility
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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 Soot."
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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.
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Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works." "It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven."
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Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major."
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It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic."
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longing
real-world
reality
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But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.
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fantasy
fear
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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.
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You are an adventurer!" exclaimed Sylvie. She tore herself away from the window and handed the glasses back to her. "But I suppose that could work. Only, what will happen afterwards?" 'I was planning to worry about afterwards when there is an afterwards," replied Leaf. "And I'm an adventurer. At least not by choice. I've done that once and learned my lesson. No more adventures without knowing what I'm getting into." "They wouldn't be adve..
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I used to think like that at school," Sabriel answered. "Dreaming about the Old Kingdom. Proper Charter Magic. Dead to bind. Princes to be --" "Rescued?"
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touchstone
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part of his mind said. , thought Arthur, fighting down the fear. .
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If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?
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benefit
garth-nix
majority
minority
morals
shade
shades-children
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This? It's a feather-coin. I made it.' 'What is it for?' 'It isn't for anything. It's a toy.' 'It's for annoying people,' said Mogget from Sam's pack. 'If you don't put it away, I shall eat it.
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I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh...
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He growled and grimaced as they came to him, and clenched his fists in pain and anger. "Unusual name," commented Mogget. "More of a bear's name, that growl."
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A passion thwarted will often go astray.
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I don't expect to need rescuing. I'm not that kind of princess.
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Together, the bells and Dog sang a song that was more than sound and power. It was the song of the earth, the moon, the stars, the sea, and the sky, of Life and Death and all that was and would be. It was the song of the Charter, the song that had bound Orannis in the long ago, the song that sought to bind the Destroyer once again.
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As per usual, trouble comes in several directions at once.
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It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other parts of the House, but we have Nothing well in hand here. I understand Nothing as no one else does! - Grim Tuesday
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I hope you find some stories here that you will enjoy, or wonder about, or that linger uncomfortably in the mind when you wish they didn't.
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I won't let you go! I love you, Dog!' 'There will be other dogs and friends, and loves' whispered the Dog. 'You have found your family, your heritage, and you have earned a high place in the world. I love you too, but my time with you has passed.
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goodbye
sad
tears
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VIDEO ARCHIVE- INTERVIEW 24768 . GOLD-EYE I like trees... grass... only birds in sky. People walking safe. Family No Creatures. Sleep all night safe. Walk under sun in own place. Grow plants. Build. Be father with mother. Have Children. A place like Petar told me. Home. After Change goes back... I want home.
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Wake me when whatever terrible thing is about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet.
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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 must go there, in the proper time. That is the rule that governs our work as the Abhorsen, but it also governs us. You are the fifty-third Abhorsen, Sabriel. I have not taught you as well as I should--let this be my final lesson. Everyone and ..
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Coils within coils," murmured the cat. "Fleas upon fleas, idiots begetting idiots--" "What?" "Mmm, just thinking," whispered Mogget. "You should try it sometimes."
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Bee stings are very educational
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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.
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purpose
sword
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Unhand my tail!" squealed the Will."
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Oh, fierce librarians, then? Tell you to shush and that sort of thing?
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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!"
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the-wall
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There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.
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You may call me Mogget. As to what I am, I was once many things, but now I am only several.
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Cats never liked to admit to names. Being named might lead to being held responsible for something.
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Alternatives! Probabilities!
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One thing I did learn early on was not to put all my trust in magic. If it can be done without magic, it's better done without magic.
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Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.
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Garth on naming characters "I spend lots of time on all the names in the books... Sabriel herself, I tried many different combinations of different words, trying to create a new name. In fact, her name comes from trying to combine the heraldic term for black which is Sable, because I wanted something that felt dark and mysterious, with the "iel" ending that you find in angels' names."
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I think I would like to work in the Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter." "Only in parts," said Ryelle. "The Old Levels." "You can't work in the Library without going into the Old Levels," said Mirelle somberly. "At least some of the time. I wouldn't be keen on going to some parts of the Library, myself."
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Waiting feeds fear. Courage comes with deeds.
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I've been thinking that it's as if my ancestors are saying it's all right to make things. That's what I'm meant to do. Make things, and help the Abhorsen and the King. 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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The most important questions--"What are you? Where did you come from?"--had a whole range of answers, starting with "I'm the Disreputable Dog" and "from elsewhere" and occasionally becoming as eloquent as "I'm your Dog" and "You tell me--it was your spell."
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