“Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Mister Monday
“Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Mister Monday
“Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Mister Monday
“Don't look, part of his mind said. If you don't see trouble, it doesn't exist.
But it does, thought Arthur, fighting down the fear. Keep breathing slowly. You have to confront your fears. Deal with them.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Mister Monday
“Who can I trust?” Arthur blurted out. “Those who wish you well,” said the Old One. “Not those who wish to use you well. Be a player, not a pawn”
― Garth Nix, quote from Mister Monday
“Keys to the Kingdom Mister Monday Garth Nix BOOK ONE”
― Garth Nix, quote from Mister Monday
“Midnight Visitors,’ whispered Suzy fearfully. ‘With nightmare-whips and night-gloves.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Mister Monday
Garth Nix
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“It's equinox, with the world balanced between winter and summer, life and death, like a spinning ball balanced on the tip of someone's finger.”
― M.R. Carey, quote from The Girl With All the Gifts
“People and land, they’re the same, his father used to say. Neglect one and the other suffers eventually.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The Magician's Apprentice
“Pieces.
A bit for someone here.
A bit there.
And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole.
But you are so busy dancing.
Delivering.
You don't have time to notice.
Or are afraid to notice.
And then one day you have to look.
And it's true.
All of your pieces fill up other people's holes.
But they don't fill
your own.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox
“كانت تنهشهما الحيرة في هذه الليلة اللانهائية، وهما دروغو وترونك مستندان الى الحاجز وقد سمّرا أعينهما نحو العمق، هناك حيث يبدأ سهل التتار، على حين بدت البقعة الغامضة ثابتة في مكانها كأنها تغفو مضطجعة، ثم رويداً رويداً أخذ يتملك دروغو شعور أن هذا مجرد لا شيء. إنه مجرد جلمود يشبه راهبة، وأن عينيه مخدوعتان، إنه مجرد تعب، وهمٌ أخرق. ها هي ذي ظلال مرارة كثيفة تلامسه. بالضبط كما يحدث عندما تمرّ بنا ساعات القدر دون أن تمسنا، ومن ثم يضيع صخبها بعيداً عنّا، على حين نبقى نحن وحيدين، تائهين في لجة بعض الأوراق اليابسة، نجتر حسرة تلك الفرصة الضائعة”
― Dino Buzzati, quote from The Tartar Steppe
“[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated. ”
― Steve Toltz, quote from A Fraction of the Whole
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