“I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“A passion thwarted will often go astray.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“I don’t particularly want to meet anyone. I’m quite happy by myself. Or at least, I was, back home.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“Some were Charter Mages, and there would not be time to argue rights and wrongs, so any aggressive magic he used would be countered or negated by these others, as was the nature of Charter Magic.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“What do you mean? I am Mogget, of course. The one and only Mogget. Though I have had other names.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“as if they were crazed stoats that had to be got rid of before they killed again.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“[Lunch] was composed of one of the fish she had caught, evidently rescued from Mogget. This had been grilled with ginger, pepper, and some spice she didn't know, set atop a salad of grains and greenleaf, accompanied by a lightly sparkling clear wine she had to admit was delicious and refreshing.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
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“Wise? No, I simply learned to think.”
― Christopher Paolini, quote from Eldest
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness of space. The child: What is beyond space? The father: The galaxy. The child: Beyond the galaxy? The father: Another galaxy. The child: Beyond the other galaxies? The father: No one knows.
You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box and cover it with wet weeds to die?
Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Viewed at their actual size, the distances between these atoms might become league, gulfs, aeons. The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons. One may step down further to subatomic particles. And then to what? Tachyons? Nothing? Of course not. Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity.
If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside. And if you should peck through the shell (or find a door), what great and torrential light might shine through your opening at the end of space? Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass? Might you be forced to think that by burning a twig you incinerate an eternity of eternities? That existence rises not to one infinite but to an infinity of them?”
― Stephen King, quote from The Gunslinger
“It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)”
― Jack London, quote from White Fang
“Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
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