Garth Nix citáty a výroky
Garth Nix: Citáty anglicky
“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
Quoted various times by different characters in all three books.
Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy)
Zdroj: Sabriel
“Gold-Eye didn't wait to see more.”
Zdroj: Shade's Children (1997), p. 9.
Kontext: 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.
Zdroj: Shade's Children (1997), p. 9.
Kontext: 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
Kontext: 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?
“My parents are going to kill me!"
"That seems rather harsh…”
Zdroj: Sir Thursday
“Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.”
Zdroj: Abhorsen
“Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.”
Zdroj: Mister Monday
“Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.”
Zdroj: Sabriel
“"Choosers will be beggars if the begging’s not their choosing," said the Dog.”
Zdroj: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), p. 398.
“Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.”
Varianta: For everyone and everything, there is a time to die.
Zdroj: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 343.
Zdroj: Sabriel
Kontext: 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.
Zdroj: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), pp. 359-360.
“Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.”
Zdroj: Sabriel
“I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.”
Zdroj: Sabriel
“Time and death sleep side by side.”
Varianta: "Time and death sleep side by side," said the Dog. "Both are in Astrael's Domain."
Zdroj: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 64.
“Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.”
Zdroj: Lirael
