Nix Quotes

I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind. ~ Garth Nix

Want some help with help with that stick in your ass, love?"
"No. It's quite comfortable, thank you."
"It should be. It's been in there for years." Nix winked at Will. "I hope you'll forgive my wife. She's a bit antisocial."
"And water's a bit wet. ~ S.W. Vaughn

So what are you going to wear to the apocalypse? I'm thinking something sparkly and transfixing.-Nix ~ Kresley Cole

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

Should have told you . . . betrayed . . . the Bile . . . ~ Garth Nix

You have to know where you are to know where to go. ~ Garth Nix

Are you . . . are you the athask? The great one?" "Maybe," said Mogget. "I can't remember." "Mogget, ~ Garth Nix

Nix to Declan:

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Testing. Hello, hellooo, anybody out there? Check, check, one, two. Soft pee. Puh, puh. Resonance! Sooooooft pee. Alpha bravo disco tango duck.
This is Nïx! I'm the Ever-Knowing One, a goddess incandescent, incomparable, and irresistible. But enough about what you think of me. It's a beautiful day in New Orleans. The wind is out of the east at a steady five knots and clouds look like rabbits … But enough about what you think of me!
Now, down to business -
Squirrel!
Where was I? [Long pause] Why am I in Regin's car? Bertil, you crawl right back out of that bong this minute!
Oh, I remember! I am hereby laying down this track for Magister Declan Chase. If you are a mortal of the recorder peon class, know that Dekko and I go waaaaay back, and he'll go berserk (snicker snicker) if he doesn't receive this transmittal. …
Chase, riddle me this: what's beautiful but monstrous, long of tooth but sharp of tooth and soft of mind, and can never ever tell a lie?
That's right. The Enemy of Old can be very useful to you. So use him already.
P.S. Your middle name's about to be spelled r-e-g-r-e-t.
And with that, I must bid you adieu. Don't worry, we'll catch up very soon. …
[Muffled] Who's mummy's wittle echolocator? That's right - you are!
- End transcript ~ Kresley Cole

Coils within coils," murmured the cat. "Fleas upon fleas, idiots begetting idiots - "

"What?"

"Mmm, just thinking," whispered Mogget. "You should try it sometimes. ~ Garth Nix

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death. ~ Garth Nix

...I don't expect to need rescuing. I'm not that kind of princess. ~ Garth Nix

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful. ~ Garth Nix

I'm not going," he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer and sharper, till he was holding a trident as long as he was tall ... "And anyone who tries to make me is going to suffer."
"Twice," added the voice under the table. ~ Garth Nix

She was no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. She was the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. ~ Garth Nix

All things a wizard makes are flawed in some way. A Good Wizard, like myself, will do this intentionally. A Bad Wizard's works will have some accidental flaw, derived from their nature. All our work has some weakness.

But why?

To limit the object's power, said the Good Wizard softly. Power is always best limited. ~ Garth Nix

A breath? she asked. She didn't want to kiss just any wooden man. He looked nice enough, but he might not be like his looks. A kiss seemed very forward. He might remember it, and make assumptions. ~ Garth Nix

Nïx clasped her hands over her chest,
sighing, "He gave you his heart. That's so romantic.
So much better than a candy heart.
Those get stuck in the fangs, you know. ~ Kresley Cole

Soft, the snow falling/Steam spiraling from coffee/The slain cold and still ~ Garth Nix

Our parts now
which perforce we must play
are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love. ~ Garth Nix

It's a long way back. she said softly.
Nick shrugged and held her hand tighter. Not so far as we've come already. ~ Garth Nix

I just think you shouldn't be dating anyone you don't want to be friends with. If you're looking for a real partner, there's got to more more than just sexual attraction there. You should be looking for someone you actually enjoy spending time with. Ideally, you're looking for a best friend. ~ Susannah Nix

And a paleopathologist? What do I know about pathology, much less the paleo kind?"
"You've killed as many beings as some diseases," Nix pointed out in a chipper tone. "Shots to the heart, and you're to blame."
"I'm going to shoot you."
"That doesn't sound patient and levelheaded, Lucia. ~ Kresley Cole

Once I faced a female with diamond skin," Nix said breathlessly. "I was transfixed - even as she was choking the life out of me."
"Really?"
" No, I saw that character on X men. I just wanted to commiserate. Alas, I have no weaknesses."
"Except your insanity," Lucia pointed out.
sigh. "Well played, Archer. then carry on ... ~ Kresley Cole

Ever thought of becoming a wizard?' - The Good Wizard
'Not before now,' said Anya. 'I've always wanted to be a sorcerer...'
Her voice trailed off as the Good Wizard raised her eyebrows.
'But not so much anymore,' continued Anya. ~ Garth Nix

The 'rob from the rich, give to the poor' is more of a general overview than a specific thing we have to do every time. It really means making sure those who have too much do some sharing with those who have too little, and it isn't always just about valuables or money or even basic things like food. It is also about sharing power and opportunities. ~ Garth Nix

When the girl at the squat got her throat slit, and Jacob got marked, Nix had been in Portland a little under a year. He had just bought a SpongeBob sleeping bag from Goodwill and had started to feel something like safe. But then, a roll or two of dust every other week helped with that. ~ Tara Bray Smith

I didn't know why he became a tree. I don't really know anything about why druids become trees-

Peace and quiet, said Elisandria matter-of-factly. Abdication of responsibility. A good long sleep. All of that. ~ Garth Nix

"Nix, I know you're faking the static." She could picture her sister blowing into her fist directly at the receiver. The static abruptly stopped. "Why?"
"It seamed less rude than the alternative."
"What's that?"
Click. ~ Kresley Cole

As it 'appens, I am Arthur's right-hand man," said Suzy. "Or left-hand girl, I can't remember where I stood last time. Anyhow, me and Arthur is like two fingers of a gauntlet. Or at least the thumb and the little finger. I mean, I'm his top General, and all. So if I say you're in, you're in. ~ Garth Nix

Not again, Nix. I'll give my life to keep you safe." He stepped into his bathroom, undressed, and turned on the cold water. "The next time we meet, I'll make you mine. That's a promise. ~ Lia Davis

I wish I had adventures like you do," Leaf said as she traced her finger over the writing on the invitation.
"They didn't feel like adventures," said Arthur. ~ Garth Nix

Nix was so beautiful yet so damaged."
- Uilleam MacRieve ~ ~ Kresley Cole

Oh, fierce librarians, then? Tell you to shush and that sort of thing? ~ Garth Nix

Everything moved rapidly after the tea was drunk. ~ Garth Nix

Waiting feeds fear. Courage comes with deeds. ~ Garth Nix

When he told Faye about the Nix, he said the moral was: Don't trust things that are too good to be true. But then she grew up and came to a new conclusion, which she told Samuel in the month before leaving the family. She told him the same story but added her own moral: "The things you love the most will one day hurt you the worst." Samuel ~ Nathan Hill

I don't have a lot of valuables on me at the moment though... and I need the ones I have for my Quest. Could you perhaps agree to rob me later? - Anya ~ Garth Nix

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

Lirael almost apologized, but she held it back. She did feel sorry for Nick. It wasn't his fault he had been chosen by an ancient spirit of evil to be its avatar. She even felt sort of maternal to him. He needed to be tucked in bed and fed willow-bark tea. That thought led to the idle speculation of what he might look like if he were well. He could be quite handsome, Lirael thought, and then instantly banished the notion. He might be an unwitting enemy, but he was still an enemy. ~ Garth Nix

Alternatives! Probabilities! ~ Garth Nix

I'm always looking for what's something that Bradley Whitford's character can say that is completely outrageous and completely wrong, but in a double-reverse way is actually totally right. I don't really like where there's a story and you lay a few jokes on top of it. ~ Matt Nix

I suppose you could call me ... Soot," said the thing. "Yes ... Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name."
"Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?"
"Boredom," said Soot. ~ Garth Nix

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths. ~ Matt Nix

They passed it late in the afternoon, their single sail stretched to bursting, clinker-built hull heeling well over, bow slicing up a column of spray that salted mouths, eyes and bodies. ~ Garth Nix

Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions. ~ Garth Nix

I am fortunate in that I am motivated to do what I do by just a really goofy desire to do it. Maybe I have demons that are hidden away someplace, and I'll discover mine someday. ~ Matt Nix

So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack? ~ Garth Nix

What you call conflict of interest, I call synergy. ~ Nathan Hill

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself. ~ Garth Nix

You mortals arose from the possibility she made and, though she always liked to think so, are consequently not of her direct design. ~ Garth Nix

Nixie, every party is an orgy waiting to happen."
Nix opened her mouth, then closed it, dragging Neomi and Mari away. "Well, you can't argue with reason, can you? ~ Kresley Cole

I am not afraid," he said to himself. ~ Garth Nix

I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child. ~ Garth Nix

If she had been in a pointing competition, she would have lost points. ~ Garth Nix

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

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate. ~ Garth Nix

But even if the captain rewrites his own history, how could it affect your reality? I'm from a place you call a fairy tale, and I'm still here."
"But . . . the Vaadi Al-Maas was real once. People believed in it."
"I believe in you. Simple enough, right?" His smile was heartbreaking. ~ Heidi Heilig

They had an instictive ability to love, so that when they encountered each other, they fitted together in a way that made the two of them more than each could ever be on their own ~ Garth Nix

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great. ~ Garth Nix

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. ~ Garth Nix

Together, the bells and Dog sang a song that was more than sound and power. It was the song of the earth, the moon, the stars, the sea, and the sky, of Life and Death and all that was and would be. It was the song of the Charter, the song that had bound Orannis in the long ago, the song that sought to bind the Destroyer once again. ~ Garth Nix

A nix who kept changing her appearance was selling something she called moonshine ~ Elliott James

Conor had volunteered to carry it, perhaps hoping it would make the others think better of him. Rollan ~ Garth Nix

Nix to Regin: What about that nice leopard-shifter pack that wanted to date you? The benefits of a variety pack of males cannot be overstated. ~ Kresley Cole

He clenched Nix's shoulders. 'Why did you hesitate? I saw you hesitate!' He shook her until her head lolled, while she grinned and said, 'Wheeee! ~ Kresley Cole

Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing - and finishing - a novel is a great thing in itself, whether or not the book is published, or becomes widely-read or not. ~ Garth Nix

People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good," she said. "They love each other because it's easy. Or because they're used to it. Or because they've given up. Or because they're scared. People can be a Nix for each other. ~ Nathan Hill

Her feelings for Jeremy were like Schrodinger's Crush. As long as she didn't open the box, their relationship existed in a state of quantum superposition: both possible and impossible at the same time. ~ Susannah Nix

Bad form, Regin! Wrong car."
Immediately after, the house shook again. "Oh, much better!" Nix assured them. "That was Bowen's! ~ Kresley Cole

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door. ~ Garth Nix

Arms around me in the dark. Lips against mine in the sunlight. Do you know why I love you?
He knew me. And loved me. And he had never asked me for anything. Even Shade wanted me to
die for him. Maybe I shouldn't forgive a monster just because he loved me that way - but
But loving me that way made him a monster. My doom was the price of saving Arcadia, and only
a monster would care more about me than saving thousands upon thousands of innocents. Shade was
the last prince; of course if he could save only one, he would choose Arcadia. I would do the same. ~ Rosamund Hodge

… I wonder why she hasn't spread the tale."
"The only reason she would not is if she is ill or the story would somehow reflect badly on herself," replied Lady Badgery. "Otherwise, Portia Troutbridge has never been known to keep a scandal to herself."
"Oh, I do hope she is ill!" exclaimed Truthful. "I mean, only just ill enough to keep the news quiet for a little longer. Is that too dreadful of me?"
"Not at all," announced Lady Badgery. "It is a very reasonable desire. In the case of Portia Troutbridge I myself would wish for something much more severe. Scarlet fever, perhaps. Or the plague. ~ Garth Nix

Why did the stories I knew best never end well?
But why too did I feel at home among them?
I could never give up the myths, the maps, the ship that had shaped me.
Blake's home might be paradise, but my home was the Temptation. ~ Heidi Heilig

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How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences. ~ Martin Luther

I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time. ~ Garth Nix

Keys to the Kingdom Mister Monday Garth Nix BOOK ONE ~ Garth Nix

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue. ~ Garth Nix

your librarians go into battle?" "When they must," said Lirael. "The Library is very old, and deep, and contains many things that have been put away for good reason. Creatures, dangerous knowledge, artifacts made not wisely, but too well . . . books that should not be opened without proper preparation, some books that should never be opened at all." "Creatures? ~ Garth Nix

Bee stings are very educational ~ Garth Nix

I just really like writing and making television shows. There are ego rewards in doing battle with other television programs in prime time in the main season. I suppose there are times when I might look at that and think that's the major league. But when you look at it, ultimately would I really want to gamble my livelihood and my ability to connect with my fan base or write a show that I really like writing, or in some cases direct a show that I really like directing, for the sake of winning an ego battle? It's totally not worth it. That stuff is so ephemeral. ~ Matt Nix

It's no secret that most memoirs are really self-help books in disguise. ~ Nathan Hill

What do you mean? I am Mogget, of course. The one and only Mogget. Though I have had other names. ~ Garth Nix

Please," said Lirael ... "I think I would like to work in this Library."
"The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter. ~ Garth Nix

That's got to be Nix," Benny said as he pulled the door open. "Hey, sweetie ... "
Morgie Mitchell and Lou Chong stood on the black porch.
"Um," said Chong, "hello to you, too, sugar lumps. ~ Jonathan Maberry

Nix and Emma: 'Looks like you just found a new talent.'
'Great. Why couldn't I be good at underwater origami or something? ~ Kresley Cole

I certainly have had experiences of a sense of wonder at the world and a feeling that even though it could all be explained rationally, it still feels that there is more to it. ~ Garth Nix

I'm out of the room in the next instant, like a man wanting breath, after suffocating through the horror of a burrito eating obese man's fart." - Emily Dolt ~ Nix Banner

It's you I'm concerned about. You are letting your fear come between you and getting better. ~ Garth Nix

Dorothea: "What the fuck are you?"
Nix: "A man who wanted to be a God ... then changed his mind. ~ Clive Barker

They mistrust you because they think you'll be the death of me," Roark said softly. "Tell me, Nix. Will you? ~ Jae T. Jaggart

Nix," I said, and her name was a poem. She tilted her face up to the dawn; my lips met hers. She pressed close to me, and then there was no past, no future - only now. No her, no me. Only us. ~ Heidi Heilig

A passion thwarted will often go astray. ~ Garth Nix

Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it. ~ Garth Nix

I think I would like to work in the Library."
"The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter."
"Only in parts," said Ryelle. "The Old Levels."
"You can't work in the Library without going into the Old Levels," said Mirelle somberly. "At least some of the time. I wouldn't be keen on going to some parts of the Library, myself. ~ Garth Nix

A hundred hundred heartbeats ... whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face. ~ Garth Nix

I don't particularly want to meet anyone. I'm quite happy by myself. Or at least, I was, back home. ~ Garth Nix

How could anyone even start to put it all back together?'
'You start small,' said Dehlia. The raven had a very particular stare. Her single eye, bright with moonshine, was focused on Anya in a very alarming way. 'With a Quest to save one of those small kingdoms, and set it to rights, and have its ruler swear to uphold the bill. Then you go on from there. ~ Garth Nix

I got this," said Nix, raising her bokken. ~ Jonathan Maberry

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