Garth Nix citáty a výroky
Garth Nix: Citáty anglicky
Garth Nix kniha Drowned Wednesday
Zdroj: Drowned Wednesday
Garth Nix kniha Abhorsen
Zdroj: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 343.
“A hundred hundred heartbeats…" whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.”
Garth Nix kniha Abhorsen
pp. 358-359.
Zdroj: “Toys, Abhorsen. And too late. Much too late.”
It was not just words he spoke, but power, Free Magic power that froze Sabriel’s nerves, caught at her muscles. Desperately, she struggled to ring the bells, but her wrists were locked in place…
Tantalizingly slowly, Kerrigor glided forward, till he was a mere arm’s length away. Towering over her like some colossal statue of rough-hewn night, his breath rolling down on her with the stench of a thousand abattoirs.
Someone – a girl quietly coughing out her last breath on the floor – touched Sabriel’s ankle with a light caress. A small spark of golden Charter Magic came from that dying touch, slowly swelling into Sabriel’s veins, traveling upwards, warming joints, freeing muscles. At last it reached her wrists and hands–and the bells rang out.
It was not the clear, true sound it should be, for somehow the bulk of Kerrigor took the sound in and warped it– but it had an effect. Kerrigor slid back, and was diminished, till he was a little more than twice Sabriel’s height.
But he was not subject to Sabriel’s will. Saraneth had not bound him, and Kibeth had only forced him back.
Sabriel rang the bells again, concentrating on the difficult counterpoint between them, forcing all her will into their magic. Kerrigor would fall under her domination, he would walk where she willed…
Garth Nix kniha Abhorsen
p. 14.
Zdroj: "I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen..."
He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel."
Zdroj: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Grim Tuesday (2004), p. 177.
Zdroj: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Lord Sunday (2010), p. 143.
“Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.”
Zdroj: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 60.
“No mother, no father, no Sight.”
Zdroj: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), p. 21.
Zdroj: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Mister Monday (2003), p. 392.
Zdroj: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Lady Friday (2007), p. 254.
Zdroj: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 395.
“A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.”
Zdroj: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Sabriel (1995), p. 46.
Zdroj: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), p. 381.
Zdroj: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Mister Monday (2003), p. 241.
Zdroj: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Grim Tuesday (2004), p. 300.
Zdroj: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Superior Saturday (2008), p. 106.
“Yeerch. Soap. See how much I love you?”
Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003)
“Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble…”
Zdroj: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Grim Tuesday (2004), p. 75.
Zdroj: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Lady Friday (2007), p. 46.
Zdroj: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Lady Friday (2007), p. 55.
