Frasi di Garth Nix

Quoted various times by different characters in all three books.
Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy)
Origine: Sabriel

Origine: Shade's Children (1997), p. 9.
Contesto: Gold-Eye's Change Vision suddenly gripped him, showing him a picture of the unpleasantly close future, the soon-to-be-now.
Doors slid open at each end of the carriage, forced apart by metal-gauntleted hands four times the size of Gold-Eye's own. Fog no longer fell in lazy swirls, but danced and spiraled crazily as huge shapes lumbered in, moving to the pile of blankets...
Gold-Eye didn't wait to see more. He came out of the vision and took the escape route he'd planned months before, when he'd first found the carriage. Lifting a trapdoor in the floor, he dropped down, down to the cold steel rails.

Origine: Shade's Children (1997), p. 9.
Contesto: Gold-Eye's Change Vision suddenly gripped him, showing him a picture of the unpleasantly close future, the soon-to-be-now.
Doors slid open at each end of the carriage, forced apart by metal-gauntleted hands four times the size of Gold-Eye's own. Fog no longer fell in lazy swirls, but danced and spiraled crazily as huge shapes lumbered in, moving to the pile of blankets...
Gold-Eye didn't wait to see more. He came out of the vision and took the escape route he'd planned months before, when he'd first found the carriage. Lifting a trapdoor in the floor, he dropped down, down to the cold steel rails.

As quoted in "A conversation with Garth Nix" by Claire E. White at Writers Write (July-August 2000) http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/jul00/nix.htm
Contesto: I don't believe authors need to keep any specific values or ideas in mind while they are writing for children, but I do think authors need to be aware of their audience, and of the effect their work may have. So if they want to address particularly sensitive topics or taboos, they have to do so consciously and carefully. This is very different to toeing a particular moral line or leaving things out.
Certainly I don't think good always has to triumph over evil; it depends on the story and the aims of the book. For example, I could envisage telling a story where the inaction of people leads to the triumph of evil. But I would include the hope that this would lead to the people involved doing better next time. Is that story then really about the triumph of evil, or is it about the awakening of opposition to evil?

Origine: Sir Thursday

Origine: Abhorsen

Origine: Mister Monday

Origine: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Sabriel (1995), p. 216.

Origine: Sabriel

Origine: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), p. 398.

Variante: For everyone and everything, there is a time to die.
Origine: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 343.
Origine: Sabriel
Contesto: 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.

Origine: Lady Friday

Origine: Lirael

Origine: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), pp. 359-360.

Origine: Sabriel

Origine: Sabriel

Origine: Lirael

Origine: Mister Monday

Origine: Sabriel

Origine: Sabriel

Origine: Clariel

Variante: "Time and death sleep side by side," said the Dog. "Both are in Astrael's Domain."
Origine: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 64.

Origine: Lirael

Origine: Lirael

Origine: Superior Saturday

Origine: Abhorsen

Origine: Lirael