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.

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.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

You tempt the devil, ” he whispered then laid his head down and sighed. “Angels always do.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

I always enjoyed working out and pushing myself physically and mentally as much as I possibly could.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.