Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

It's always better to be doing.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.

A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

God desires to use you is to use you in the best possible fashion.

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!

So why aren’t you living with your sister?” “She wanted to meet new people,” Cath said. “You make it sound like she broke up with you.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.