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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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Garth Nix
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: July 19
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Garth Richard Nix
Warm
Field
Fowl
Cool
Shady
Sun
Wheat
Moon
Mice
Fields
Fish
Tree
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Trees

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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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My parents are going to kill me! That seems rather harsh.
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There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.
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Fine! muttered Mogget. Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.
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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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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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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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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 hundred hundred heartbeats... whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.
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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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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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Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble.
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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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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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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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Unhand my tail! squealed the Will.
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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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