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Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
Garth Nix
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Garth Nix
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: July 19
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Melbourne
Australia
Garth Richard Nix
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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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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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May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?
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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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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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Time and death sleep side by side.
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A hundred hundred heartbeats... whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.
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People often presume I'm from whatever country they're from. So Americans presume I'm American and the British presume I'm British. And they're surprised to discover I actually am Australian. And actually some Australians are surprised too.
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I can see time, whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.
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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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Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble.
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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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Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?
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Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.
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There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.
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Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing in itself, whether or not the book is published, or becomes widely-read or not.
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Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.
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It's always better to be doing.
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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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I am Abhorsen... He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, Father of Sabriel
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