Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

I can see time,” whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense...

When the dead do walk seek water’s run,for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river’s best or broadest laketo ward the dead and have and make.If water fails thee, fire’s thy friend, if neither...

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the...

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...

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

Twice,” added the voice under the table.

Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn’t surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.

Time and death sleep side by side.

Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together. Arthur looked up and saw the fizzing sparkling crown coming...

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

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

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.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation,” intoned the Will. “Knowing everything means you don’t need to think, and that is very dangerous.

‎”It always seemed somehow less real here… a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was...

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

So I’ll do that, and I’ll do my best and if my best isn’t good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don’t have to try...

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

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.

I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have...

Maybe if I act well enough, I’ll come to believe it myself.

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Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the last five seconds they ever would have alone together.I am...

As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I’ll feed you to the cat thing here. Understand?””Yum,” said Mogget.”Yes, sir!” mumbled the telephone operator, his hands shaking as he tried...

There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.

My parents are going to kill me!””That seems rather harsh…