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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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Garth Nix
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: July 19
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Garth Richard Nix
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Feeling
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Way
Often
Feelings
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Stories
Happenings
Best
Happening
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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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I am Abhorsen... He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, Father of Sabriel
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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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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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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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I can see time, whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.
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Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.
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Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble.
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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.
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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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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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Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.
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Time and death sleep side by side.
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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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Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?
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Fine! muttered Mogget. Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.
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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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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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A hundred hundred heartbeats... whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.
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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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