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.

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.

Success seems to be largely a matterof hanging on after others have let go.

The way to make your dreams come true is to start believing in them.

My mind reels with sarcastic replies!

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

... France is the genius among nations.

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

In search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands; I will gather no flowers, I will fear no wild beasts; And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.

The Qur'an says speak not of those who are slain in the way of God as "dead," or die in the way of Allah as "dead," "they are alive, but you perceive not."

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.