Midnight Visitors,' whispered Suzy fearfully. 'With nightmare-whips and night-gloves.

What Great Beast will have their solitude pierced by your grasping little voices?

Should have told you . . . betrayed . . . the Bile . . .

Stop! By the Keys I hold, I order the Nothing to stop! House, you must hold against the Void!

They passed it late in the afternoon, their single sail stretched to bursting, clinker-built hull heeling well over, bow slicing up a column of spray that salted mouths, eyes and bodies.

Keys to the Kingdom Mister Monday Garth Nix BOOK ONE

Believe in Lord Arthur. Believe in your Carp. We shall prevail.

Conor had volunteered to carry it, perhaps hoping it would make the others think better of him. Rollan

You mortals arose from the possibility she made and, though she always liked to think so, are consequently not of her direct design.

How come it's all right for the bad guys to do whatever they want, and whenever I want to do something it's 'forget about it'?

Greencloaks rarely retire," said Xue. "I took a long leave of absence. Probably time to come back. The younger ones are not so well-trained." "Well, we've only just started," protested Meilin. "And we...

Both of them often turned to gaze at Sabriel.

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog."

What's your name? she asked.Street rat, scum girl, you good-for-nought, said the child bitterly.What is it really? asked Anya... .Why you giving us this? she asked.Because ... because I want to make...

Pause friend, be smelled and enter!...

Sabriel felt the family turmoil of energy and the feeling of falling into an endless galaxy...

You know we do not make such judgments, said Shushu. Business is business. We do not question whether our customers are 'good' or 'evil.'Once we did, said the older witch. When the Bill of Rights

And your otter friend is eating by ... or in ... the pool. But it is as well that you should check. That is the mark of a leader.

I will not give up. It is the right thing to do, no matter the consequences.

All things a wizard makes are flawed in some way. A Good Wizard, like myself, will do this intentionally. A Bad Wizard's works will have some accidental flaw, derived from their nature. All our work...

BECAUSE THEY LOOK SO SURPRISED TO BE EATEN UP! guffawed the giant. PRINCESSES ALWAYS EXPECTS TO GET RESCUED.Do they? asked Anya mildly. Better they should rescue themselves.

Might have been and could have done, neither worth thinking on,' said Huire, repeating one of their mother's favourite sayings.pg 110

Knowledge is always useful, even if... if it is not immediately apparent how it will be useful.

Bert and Dehlia had planted the seed of thought in her mind, and it was growing away busily putting out new shoots of thought, all of which were quite bothersome, because they were about things like...

I didn't know why he became a tree. I don't really know anything about why druids become trees-Peace and quiet, said Elisandria matter-of-factly. Abdication of responsibility. A good long sleep. All...

Will Morven be a good queen?Um, said Anya, flustered. She's the oldest... Bert's eyes opened wider, questioningly. And that makes her fit to rule? Tell me, in your reading, do you study history?

Music is a great balm. Another thing evil sorcerers give up. They cannot abide music, for it can conjure all human emotions, most particularly joy and happiness.

She very rarely cried, but being brave took an enormous amount of effort. Sometimes she just got tired of keeping everything together.

she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well. We

Is it the walker who chooses the way or the way the walk?